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Moten, Matthew. The Army Officer’s Professional Ethic—Past, Present, and Future. U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, Feb. 2010. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA514082 The Army officer corps has both a need and an opportunity to better define itself as a profession, forthrightly to articulate its professional ethic, and clearly to codify what it means to be a military professional. The stresses of war on the force and their likely continuation in a long period of conflict present both an opportunity and a requirement to define the Army’s ethical standards clearly. The Army must reform itself as it fights. The essence of the professional ethic needs no radical change. Yet the ethic has never been clearly and succinctly codified. Mullen, Michael G. CJCS Guidance for 2009-2010. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dec. 21, 2009. http://www.jcs.mil/content/files/2009-12/122109083003_CJCS_Guidance_for_2009- 2010.pdf Adm. Mullen emphasizes that military activities must support rather than lead foreign policy. The ongoing wars have proven that the military serves best when it is a part of an approach that employs all elements of national power. He states that by operating with allies and partners, supporting the interagency process, and working outside organizations, the military will provide the United States with the security that the Constitution guarantees. Mullen, Michael G. CJCS Guidance for 2011. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jan. 5, 2011. http://www.jcs.mil//content/files/2011-01/010511112840_CJCS_Annual_Guidance-corrected_copy.pdf “Our professionalism must remain beyond reproach. The American people, and their political leadership, closely scrutinize our conduct, and rightly so. Respect for them – and for our oath, demands that we continue to remain an apolitical instrument of the state. That means being apolitical in our acts and in our words, whether outside the wardroom, on the flightline, within the barracks, or in the halls of the Pentagon. Over nine years of close quarter combat has changed many aspects of what we do. It must not change who or what we are as a professional, disciplined force.” Mullen, Michael G. “Cultural Changes: What Stays and What Must Go.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 126.1 (Jan. 2000): 28-32. New command and control arrangements must be within the Navy to provide situational awareness, reduce time, tighten decision loops, and ensure agility in responding to changing circumstances. Acceptance of more risk and the rearrangement of accountability many be necessary to meet these new requirements. The Navy must 17
pursue the operational, watchstanding, and administrative shipboard organizations that will allow the force to outthink, outmaneuver, and outfight a cunning adversary. Mullen, Michael G. “Grove City College Commencement Speech.” U.S. Navy Website (May, 20, 2006). http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/mullen/speeches/mu llen060520-gc.txt “In my profession we seek leaders of character. Character that inspires trust and confidence that people can follow on the darkest night. Character which keeps you on course no matter what winds or waves try to push you towards dishonesty and doubt. It means driving yourself—setting high standards first for yourself then for others. It means doing your best and doing the right thing. It means doing it every time—no matter who is watching and who isn’t. It is that type of character that I see in America’s sailors today as I visit them across the globe.” Mullen, Michael G. and Robert Gates. “Media Roundtable with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA.” Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs, Mar. 5, 2008. http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4168 The U.S. military is ready to accept whoever the American people elect as president to be the commander in chief, regardless of that person’s demographics. Civilian control of the military must be maintained. Retired officers are free to express their views and to align themselves with politicians. However, Adm. Mullen does worry that these views get construed as the beliefs of the military as a whole. Mullen, Michael G. “Military Must Stay Apolitical.” Joint Force Quarterly 50 (3 rd quarter 2008): 2-3. https://digitalndulibrary.ndu.edu/u?/ndupress,20483 “What the Nation expects is that military personnel will, in the execution of the mission assigned to them, put aside their partisan leanings. Political opinions have no place in cockpit or camp or conference rooms. We do not wear our politics on our sleeves. Part of the deal we made when we joined up was to willingly subordinate our individual interests to the greater good of protecting vital national interests.” Mullen, Michael G. “The Leadership.” Surface Warfare (Jan./Feb. 1999): 36. “Integrity is being truthful to yourself—morally and ethically. It is a character and credibility issue. Responsibility is at the crux of the military profession because it boils down to a commitment to take care of your people. Successful officers understand their 18
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