Contents

Three Moral Certainties
3
Turning Backward The Erosion of Moral Sensibility
15
The Mission of the Military and the Question of the Regime
29
Why Serve the State? Moral Foundations of Military Officership
56
Some Personal Reflections on Integrity
73
Decisions of Leaders and Commanders Ethics Counts
84
Professional Integrity
95
The JustWar Idea and the Ethics of Intervention
107
The War Metaphor in Public Policy Some Moral Reflections
181
The Control of Violence Foreign and Domestic Ethical Lessons from Law Enforcement
198
When Integrity Is Not Enough Guidelines for Responding to Unethical Adversaries
213
Conscience and Authority
228
In the Line of Duty The Complexity of Military Obligation
243
The Education of Character
255
Liberal Education and Its Enemies
272
The Hazards of Repudiating Tradition
283

Emergency Ethics
126
Terrorism and the Military Professional
140
Unchosen Evil and the Responsibility of War Criminals
155
The Core Values in Combat
167
Contributors
297
Index
303
Copyright

Drawn from the "Alice McDermott Memorial Lectures in Applied Ethics" held at the United States Air Force Academy, these 20 essays contribute to our understanding of ethics and leadership. Contributions come from a distinguished and diverse group of individuals including, Allan Bloom, Reverend Edward A. Malloy, John T. Noonan, Jr., James F. Childress, Christina Hoff Sommers, General Ronald R. Fogelman, and William J. Bennett. The range of topics include moral certainty and sensibility, professional and personal integrity, emergency ethics and the responsibility of war criminals, the just war and public policy, unethical adversaries and military obligation, and liberal education and character.