Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Pierce, Albert C
2. National Defense University Press, publisher

Description

1. xi, 199 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.

Subject

1. Military ethics -- United States
2. Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects
3. Armed Forces
4. Military ethics
5. United States -- Armed Forces -- Officers' handbooks
6. United States

Genre/Form

1. Handbooks and manuals.

Contents

1. Foreword / General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. -- Preface / Major General Frederick M. Padilla -- The commission and the oath -- The profession of arms -- The officer in the profession of arms -- The officer at work: The ethical use of force -- The officer at work: Leadership -- The officer at work: Command -- The officer and society: The vertical dimension -- The officer and society: The horizontal dimension -- Service identity and joint warfighting -- The Armed Forces officer -- Appendix A: Founding documents -- Appendix B: Authorizing statues for the Armed Forces -- Appendix C: Service values of the Armed Forces -- Appendix D: Code of conduct for members of the United States Armed Forces.

Call number

1. JFE 17-11443

Language

1. English

Note

1. 2016 edition statement from preface.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Swain, Richard M. (Richard Moody), 1943- author.

Title

1. The Armed Forces officer / by Richard M. Swain and Albert C. Pierce.

Publisher

1. Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2017.

Distributor

1. [Washington, D.C.] : [For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office]

Edition

1. U.S. Government official edition.
2. 2016 edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Connect to:

1. http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo80422
2. (paper)

Added author

1. Pierce, Albert C., author.
2. National Defense University Press, publisher.

Other form:

1. Online version: Swain, Richard M. (Richard Moody), 1943- Armed Forces officer (OCoLC)985607781

ISBN

1. 9780160937583 (paperback)
2. 0160937582 (paperback)

Gpo item no.

1. 0378-H-01

Sudoc no.

1. D 5.402:OF 3/2017

Research call number

1. JFE 17-11443