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The American Military Ethic: A Meditation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275941956)
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James Hugh Toner
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xThis is a book about military professionals. It outlines the personal reflections of a U.S. Army lieutenant/captain on active duty in Europe during the Vietnam War. There, the enemy was drugs, boredom, racism, and illiteracy. Few, if any, books concern the Vietnam-era veteran. The American Military Ethic tells the story of one such veteran--of basic combat training, of Infantry OCS, and of airborne school--who had charge of a nuclear weapons unit in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s. First person accounts are blended with a more traditional scholarly examination of professional military training for junior and senior officers (ROTC and the war colleges) and of the American military ethic itself.
Toner argues that the American military ethic has undergone a deserved rejuvenation. The ethic itself--which is the source of true professionalism--has a sacred character, for it involves its professors in a solemn oath: to preserve and to protect the republic. That mission can lead officers to the ultimate test of leadership: whether to accomplish the mission or to safeguard the people for whom the leader is responsible. Still, this book is not of the guts-and-glory variety. It is a study in practical, real leadership; it examines leadership problems of the type real junior officers confront daily; and it explores the kinds of ethical problems real senior officers frequently confront. Its thesis is this: A professional military ethic depends, ultimately, upon the formation of responsible character in (and by) its leaders; for that, sound education is a necessity. ROTC and senior professional military education depend, therefore, upon challenging, serious, and substantial academic experiences. In the end, the American military ethic is a function of the wisdom and virtue learned and taught by its officers. This volume will be of great interest to active duty military professionals, students of military history, and veterans of the Vietnam era.Author: James Hugh Toner,James H. Toner
ISBN-10: 0275941957
ISBN-13: 9780275941956
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/22/1992
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
By James Hugh Toner
xJAMES H. TONER is Visiting Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and Associate Professor of Political Science at Norwich University in Vermont. He is a graduate of Infantry OCS and U.S. Army Airborne School. From 1968 to 1972, Toner was on active duty as a nuclear weapons officer in the U.S. Army, Europe. Recognized for his excellence in teaching, he has recently completed another book, The Sword and the Cross (Praeger, 1992), and has contributed to such journals as Parameters, Military Review, Armed Forces and Society, Army, and Choice.
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