Dissent, Resignation, and the Moral Agency of Senior Military Professionals

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2341018
AutoresDon M Snider (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas5-16
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x16657322
OpenAlexW2490568131
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas10

This short article answers the question of whether, in the context of current American civil-military relations, senior military professionals may loyally dissent from a decision by civilian authorities, even including by resignation. Stated another way, can their constitutional duties to obedience to civilian authority ever clash so severely with their responsibilities to their profession and its fiduciary trust with the American people that dissent is obligated. The position offered here is that senior military professionals always retain the moral agency for such dissent. It inheres in their role as a steward of an American military profession exercising the discretionary judgments that are the moral core of their professional work

Agency (philosophy) · Civil–military relations · Context (archaeology) · Dissent · Moral agency · Obedience · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Military and Defense Studies · Military History and Strategy · War, Ethics, and Justification