Case Studies In Ethics For Military Leaders
, by Rubel, Rick- ISBN: 9781256166184 | 1256166189
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/7/2011
Capt William Rick Rubel served as Naval Officer for 30 years, including operations in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Iranian Contingency Operations, and Battle Damage repairs during Desert Storm. He is currently the Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy.
George Lucas (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1978) is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair of the Department of Leadership, Ethics & Law at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis).
Preface: Case Studies in Military Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.
Introduction: Getting to the Moral Point of the Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Captain Rick Rubel (USN, Ret)
I The Ethical Dimensions of Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Leave No One Behind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Captain Rick Rubel
Incident at Shkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Captain Bob Schoultz, USN (Ret)
Rescuing the Boat People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Captain Rick Rubel
Interdiction in Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Captain Bob Schoultz
USS Vincennes—Friend or Foe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Edited by Captain Rick Rubel
Who Lives? Who Dies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Colonel Paul E. Roush, USMC (Ret)
Come Right: Conflicts of Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Captain Rick Rubel
II The Moral Dilemmas of Modern Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Life or Death: The Marcus Luttrell Story of “The Lone Survivor”. . . . . . . . . . 39
Captain Rick Rubel
Abu Ghraib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Captain Rick Rubel
“What the Hell Just Happened?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chaplain Tom Webber, USN, CHC
Incident at a Roadblock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
(author anonymous)
War Is Big Business: Blackwater Worldwide Operations in Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Lt Matt Courtney, USN, Lt Sean Maloney, USN, LCDR William Pugh, USN,
LCDR Andrew J. McFarland, USN, and Joseph Prisella, DOD/USN
Terror and Retaliation—Who Is Right? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Captain Rick Rubel
Intervention in Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.
Massacre in Srebrenica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Dr. Paolo Tripodi
Acting on Conscience: Captain Lawrence Rockwood in Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Dr. Stephen Wrage
Hiroshima: The First Use of Nuclear Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Dr. Manuel Velasquez and Dr. Cynthia Rostonkowski
Tomahawk Target: Collateral Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Captain Rick Rubel
Military Means, and Military Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Captain Rick Rubel
The Road to Basra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Dr. Martin L. Cook and Major Phillip A. Hamann, USAF
The People or the Mission? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Submitted by Dr. Deane-Peter Baker
III Ethics Within the Military Profession:
Upholding a Higher Standard? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Chief Warrant Officer Hugh W. Thompson at My Lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Edited by Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.
Tiananmen Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Captain Rick Rubel
Major Knight and Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dr. Stephen Wrage
The Death of a Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Colonel Paul E. Roush
Iran-Contra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Colonel Paul E. Roush
Aviano EA-6B Gondola Mishap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
LtCol Gary Slyman, USMC
Loyalty vs. Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
LtCol Joe Dauplaise, USMC (Ret)
Truth vs. Loyalty: The Case of the Missing Flashlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Midshipman Zachary D. Thrasher
The Obligations of Officership: The SENTINEL Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Colonel Paul E. Roush
Falsification of MV-22 Readiness Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
LtCol Gary E. Slyman, USMC, Patricia Jacubec, and Jonathan Cox
Pass the Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Captain Rick Rubel
The Tailhook Scandal—Her Story: Paula Coughlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Tom Philpott
Concepts of Honor and of Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.
Loyalty and Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Captain Rick Rubel
IV Religion and the Military: Respecting Belief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
A Sailor’s Request for Abortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Captain Rick Rubel
Altering the Uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Edited by Gerald Gunther
The Christmas Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Captain Rick Rubel
Flex Deck Ops: The Sea of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Captain Rick Rubel
Missiles: Ready to Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Captain Rick Rubel
V The Navy Chaplain and the Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
The Chaplain in Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
U.S. Navy Chaplain
“By My Presence . . .” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Captain Rick Rubel
Can’t Phone Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Captain Rick Rubel
Part of the Combat Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Captain Rick Rubel
How Do We Honor the Fallen? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Captain Rick Rubel
Digging Fox-holes with My Marines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Captain Rick Rubel
Why Should We Take the Risk? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Captain Rick Rubel
VI Equality, Justice, and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Justice or Mercy: Captain’s Mast—Non-Judicial Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Captain Rick Rubel
Justice at Sea: The Case of “Billy Budd, Sailor” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Herman Melville
Our Values or Theirs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Captain Rick Rubel
We Treat Her Just Like Everyone Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Captain Rick Rubel
Appendix A: Case Sequels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Rescuing the Boat People: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Captain Rick Rubel
Come Right: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Captain Rick Rubel
Captain Lawrence Rockwood in Haiti: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Dr. Stephen Wrage
Hugh Thompson: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.
Major Knight and Cambodia: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Dr. Stephen Wrage
Aviano EA-6B Gondola Mishap: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
LtCol Gary Slyman
Falsification of MV-22 Readiness Records: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
LtCol Gary Slyman
How Do We Honor the Fallen?: The Sequel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Captain Rick Rubel
Appendix B: Geneva Conventions Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Appendix C: U.S. Army/Marine Corps
Counterinsurgency Field Manual Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
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