Once We Put Our Helmets On, There are No More Friends

The ''Fights'' Session in the Israeli Army Course for Close-Combat Instructors

Bibliographic Data

ID2340756
AuthorsEinat Bar‐on Cohen (0000-0002-4823-1540, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Einat Bar-On Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel,)
Year2011
Volume37
Issue3
Pages512-533
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x10372598
OpenAlexW2098291274
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

At their final training session, soldiers at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) close-combat instructors' course are faced with an extreme situation. Clad in full protection gear, they must face consecutive opponent and fight until they can fight no more. The training setting presents to the soldiers a dilemma epitomized in the instructor's question ''Do you want to quit?'' The author argues that the question, as well as, the situation as a whole presents the trainees with a paradox that seems at first to be a moral dilemma. However, since the training setting simulates real battle, the question which also has an existential facet, is in fact a pseudo moral dilemma, reversing the order of self-interest and self-regard

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