REFERENCE MATERIAL
National
Defense University Conference
MILITARY
PROFESSIONALISM:
Introspection and Reflection on Basic Tenets and the Way Ahead
10 January 2011
Organized
by the Institute for National Security Ethics and Leadership (INSEL)
and the INSS Center for Strategic Conferencing
Reference
material will be posted here as it becomes available.
The
Obligations of Military
Professionalism - "Service Unsullied by Partisanship",
by Richard Swain, COL USA (Ret) http://www.ndu.edu/INSEL/docUploaded/obligations%20of%20military%20professionalism.pdf
The purpose of this paper is to express a set of views on the ethical obligations
of members of the American profession of arms in order to stimulate thoughtful
discussion and broader debate about the proper limits of acceptable and effective
professional conduct. These views are focused for most part on the obligations
of commissioned officers, but they apply in many ways to the public and private
conduct of senior non-commissioned officers, and indeed, all military members.
They depend to a large degree on a particular understanding of the governing
compact of this country and the behavior American citizens expect of their uniformed
servants.
This paper is part of a larger project
on military professionalism organized by NDU’s Institute for National Security
Ethics and Leadership (INSEL). It was commissioned with two goals in mind:
• First, that it will inspire introspection and reflection by individual members
and the military profession as a whole.
• Second, that it will encourage and enrich the discussion of these issues across
the military education and training community.
A
Thematic Bibliography on Military Professionalism, annotated
by Jessica Groves, INSEL Research Assistant, compiled by Lily McGovern, NDU
Research Librarian and Tim Baker, NDU Research Librarian http://www.ndu.edu/INSEL/docUploaded/MilitaryProfessionalismBibliography.pdf
This is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive bibliography, but rather
a document that grows and evolves so as to remain relevant as new issues and
new materials arise. We welcome any
suggestions or recommendations for additional texts. Please email them to insel.ndu.edu
Updated:
7 January 2011