Finney Nathan K. - Redefining the modern military: the intersection of profession and ethics

A very timely work to help strengthen our understanding of what it means to be a professional fighting force in the twenty-first century.

Lieutenant General Rick Burr, AO, DSC, MVO, Chief of the Australian Army

a great volume composed of varied perspectives that provide insight and historic context so we can maintain and cultivate our profession for the coming decades.

Major General John Kem, USA, Commandant, U.S. Army War College

a conversation that not only reflects on where the profession stands today, but perhaps more importantly, how our civilian-led institutions adapt our military to the future nature of warfare and the increasingly heavy responsibility placed on the individual citizen-service member.

Daniel Feehan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness)

Redefining the Modern Military astutely describes why both competence and character are vital to leadership in the military profession.

Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr., USA (Ret.), former Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy

Todays true military professionals will find much in this collection to set their necessarily ambitious, but essentially pragmatic, reform agendas.

Lieutenant General Sir Paul Newton, KBE, CBE, MPhil, UK Army (Ret.), Director, Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter, and former Commander, Force Development and Training

This book fuels the necessary conversation to make every curious reader a better warrior. Bravo Zulu!

Rear Admiral Peg Klein, USN (Ret.), former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism

[A] must-read for anyone who cares about professional military education or civil-military relations.

Jim Golby, PhD, former Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Special Advisor to Vice Presidents Joe Biden & Mike Pence

This outstanding collection provides the essential context for military professionals who wish both to take their profession seriously and to develop a better understanding of themselves and their peers.

Major General Andrew R.D. Sharpe, CBE, PhD (Cantab), UK Army (Ret.), Director of the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, former Director of the UK Ministry of Defences independent think-tank, the Development, Concepts, and Doctrine Centre

Finney and Mayfield have assembled a masterful exploration of ethics and the profession of arms.

Major General Mick Ryan, Commander, Australian Defence College

Practitioners and scholars of the military profession will find this collection to be an invaluable source for insight and inspiration.

Dr. J. P. Clark, author of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 18151917

Finney and Mayfield have put together an important volume on the profession of arms and ethics.

Colonel Celestino Perez Jr., Professor, U.S. Army War College

This comprehensive text is the closest any student can get to one-stop shopping on the topic of the U.S. military profession.

Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II, Editor, Parameters, and author of Reconsidering the American Way of War: U.S. Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan

The arguments offered in these pages are as shrewd as they are important.

Spencer D. Bakich, Director of the National Security Program at the Virginia Military Institute, and author of Success and Failure in Limited War: Information & Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

An awesome example of collaborative writing to elevate the discourse in the profession of arms.

The Military Writers Guild

REDEFINING THE MODERN
MILITARY

The Intersection of Profession and Ethics

EDITED BY

NATHAN K. FINNEY AND TYRELL O. MAYFIELD

NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS

291 Wood Road

Annapolis, MD 21402

2018 by Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Finney, Nathan K., editor of compilation. | Mayfield, Tyrell O., editor of compilation.

Title: Redefining the modern military : the intersection of profession and ethics / editors, Nathan K. Finney & Tyrell O. Mayfield.

Description: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018019223 (print) | LCCN 2018028683 (ebook) | ISBN 9781682473641 (epub) | ISBN 9781682473641 (mobi) | ISBN 9781682473641 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781682473634 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Military ethicsUnited States. | Military education

United States. | United States. ArmyMilitary life. | Military socializationUnited States.

Classification: LCC U22 (ebook) | LCC U22 .R39 2018 (print) | DDC 174/.9355dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019223

Print editions meet the requirements of ANSI/NISO z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

Printed in the United States of America.

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First printing

Book design and composition: Alcorn Publication Design

To the officers and noncommissioned officers who live and breathe the profession every dayin peacetime and in war.
And to Rebecca and Jenniferthe keepers of the flame and the foundation of our lives. Thank you for your enduring patience, love, and support.

CONTENTS

by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, USA (Ret.)

, by Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield

, by Pauline Shanks-Kaurin

, by Jo Brick

, by Casey Landru

, by H. M. Mike Denny

, by Tony Ingesson

, by Rebecca Johnson

, by William M. Beasley Jr.

, by Simon Anglim

, by Raymond A. Kimball

, by Steven Foster

, by Holly Hughson

, by Brian Laslie

, by Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield

FOREWORD

J ust short of a decade ago, the US Army began a journey to rediscover its professional roots during war. After years involved in the daily grind of two wars, there was a recognition that, like in past wars, our institutions and our people became singularly focused on the daily operations that combat demands. But this external focus came at a cost: the sustainment and maintenance of what makes modern militaries truly uniquetheir profession.

The Armys introspection was not the first time it had conducted such an assessment. Following the Korean and Vietnam Wars, in particular, our military took a long, hard look at itself, measuring against both unspoken and explicit standards of professionalism. Such studies, including works ultimately published by Samuel Huntington and Morris Janowitz, as well as reports commissioned by Gen. William Westmoreland and others, established the foundation for the modern military as a profession.