Aspects of Military Leadership: Ethics, Law, and Spirituality, Examples from Afghanistan, COIN Operations, Irregular Warfare, Holocaust, Rules of Engagement, Loyalty to Comrades, Religious Factor

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Army publication, comprised of a collection of essays, provides timely and insightful views on current leadership behavior and ethical concerns that men and women of the armed forces face in the demanding, complex, and prolonged decade of armed conflict.

This book offers significant and relevant perspectives on the historical underpinnings as well as from recent deployments and operations that affect ethics and law of war on individual Marines, units, and the populations engaged in conflict. The various chapters are the result of thoughtful perspectives and exhaustive research by intelligent and committed scholars and practitioners who apply their knowledge and wisdom with the passion to make clear what right ethical behavior by service members should look like.

Dialogues addressing leadership from various aspects are captured and shared in this collection and should benefit not only the formal schools at Marine Corps University, but also fellow service professional military educational institutions. This book will also be relevant for those dedicated officer and enlisted personnel in the operating forces looking to broaden their understanding of leadership as they confront the difficult environments our Marines currently and will continue to face in the foreseeable future. It seems fairly settled within the Marine Corps that the study of leadership is something to be revered. Every commandant from the very earliest years of our founding emphasized education in leadership, understanding that leaders were made, not born.

Introduction * Carroll Connelley * Ethics * Leadership, Ethics, and Culture in COIN Operations: Case Examples from Marjeh, Afghanistan * Brian Christmas and Paula Holmes-Eber * Ethics and Irregular Warfare: The Role of the Stakeholder Theory and Care Ethics * Geoffroy Murat * A Pedagogy of Practical Military Ethics * Clinton A. Culp * Leadership in a World of Blurred Responsibilities * Emmanuel R. Goffi * When Loyalty to Comrades Conflicts with Military Duty * J. Peter Bradley * Leadership and the Ethics of Dissent: Reflections from the Holocaust * Paolo Tripodi * Enacting a Culture of Ethical Leadership: Command and Control as Unifying Mind * Clyde Croswell and Dan Yaroslaski * Law * Training the Rules of Engagement for the Counterinsurgency Fight * Winston Williams * Rules of Engagement: Law, Strategy, and Leadership * Laurie R. Blank * Humanity in War: Leading by Example; The Role of the Commander in Modern Warfare * Jamie A. Williamson * Agency of Risk: The Balance Between Protecting Military Forces and the Civilian Population * Chris Jenks * Accountability or Impunity: Rules and Limits of Command Responsibility * Kenneth Hobbs * Spirituality * Spiritual Injuries: Wounds of the American Warrior on the Battlefield of the Soul * David Gibson and Judy Malana * Soldier Spirituality in a Combat Zone: Preliminary Findings * Franklin Eric Wester * The Spiritual as the Nexus for the Ethical and the Legal * Jeffrey S. Wilson * The Religious Factor in Military Leadership * Pauletta Otis * Spiritual Leadership in the Battle Space: Who Is in Charge? A Personal Essay * Arnold Fields * Contributors