Ethically Yours

More thoughts while reading on the fourth edition of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars. What is the foundation of military professionalism? Walzer says that “some sense of military honor is still the creed of the professional soldier.” It would be informative to know what contemporary soldiers understand as “honor” within their activities. To paraphrase [...]

Bruce Fleming, “The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity” raises several interesting points about the US Military Service Academies.  One paragraph particularly caught my eye: Meanwhile, the academy’s former pursuit of excellence seems to have been pushed aside by the all-consuming desire to beat Notre Dame at football (as Navy did last year). To keep our teams [...]