Ideals, Military
Ideals, Military.No single authoritative document sets forth America's military ideals. However, we may note three groupings that appear to be valid subsets of military ideals, recognizing that discussion cannot always accommodate compartmentalization along such analytic lines: ethical ideals, establishing standards of professional conduct; ideals in operational matters, that is, in the conduct of war itself; and ideals of military leadership.
Ethical Ideals.
The early provenance of American military ideals lies in the history of war itself, predating by centuries the emergence of military professionalism among American officers in the nineteenth century. The British code of military honor as it existed in the later eighteenth century, distinctly aristocratic in tone, served as a model for George Washington's Revolutionary forces, though it was substantially revised to fit social and political conditions in America....[The entire page is 2504 words long]
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