Battlefield Ethics

[Dr Jack]

The MHAT-IV briefing slides to the Commandant of the Marine Corps can be found at the following sites:

http://www.militarytimes.com/static/...tiv18apr07.pdf

http://www.iava.org/documents/MHATIV...Commandant.ppt

Interesting data...

[marct]

Hi Jimbo,

Hasn't Insurgency/Counter-Insurgency been described as nasty dirty wars in the past? Soldiers and Marines have varying defintions of mistreatment and serious injuries. Marc, you are not going to see the raw data on this.

I know . Let's just say I would be a lot more confident about their findings if I could get a look at the raw data. And, also, my comments about their definition of "ethics" still stand .

The MHAT-IV briefing slides to the Commandant of the Marine Corps can be found at the following sites:

http://www.militarytimes.com/static/...tiv18apr07.pdf

http://www.iava.org/documents/MHATIV...Commandant.ppt

Interesting data...

Somewhat, but most of it is in the main report. I certainly didn't see anything in the briefing about the role of chaplains, and I would have liked to. Then again, this is one of the limitations of the type of research they are doing - you can't really probe things or find out something you didn't already think about. For example, while there is some good data on "ethics" and NCOs, I didn't see anything that actually dug into this - only surface numbers. Why is there a difference? What are the characteristics of the NCOs that are limiting ethical breaches? How can those characteristics be translated into training programs? That sort of stuff.

Marc