Affiliation:
1. Center for Research on Military Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Abstract
Over the past decade, the American armed services have witnessed a near-constant stream of so-called ethical lapses. Spanning rank, specialty, and service, these “lapses” have given rise to a flood of criticism by journalists and piercing calls for reform from politicians. In response, American military leaders have pointed to the paired concepts of profession and professionalism as the solution. In this article, we use classical conceptualizations of the military profession to resituate the problem of ethical lapses as instead one of the three fault lines of the contemporary American military profession, unfolding alongside crises in military expertise and identity. The three fault lines reveal at once the large scale of the challenges facing the American armed services and our very limited social scientific understanding of those problems. We end by emphasizing the need for future research to establish an updated empirical baseline for theories of the military profession in America.
Funder
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subject
Safety Research,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science
Cited by
15 articles.
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