A Few Good Men

The Brigade will advocate its commitment to the Army’s core values by focusing on Honor, Personal Courage, and Duty because these three values summarize what an ethical warrior must be. The other Army’s values remain important but focusing on three will bring clarity and simplicity. Honor is a “code of personal integrity.” This code ties the Army to the Nation. It is of course the soldiers’ honor to risk their lives to defend the nation. But it is also their honor to fight in accordance with American values. The US Army’s ethical warriors fight their enemies with determination, but respect. Acts of crime, misconduct, and ethical breaches

To be successful or victorious in any war, the military have to make sure that men and women in uniforms, are well trained and discipline. Discipline is one of the key factors in any operation. Where there is discipline, there is orderliness, especially in the military. Combat soldiers are trained to kill, and defend themselves. Following ROE will help them target their enemies better. For example, in the Vietnam War, the Army operated under R0E, known as rules of engagement. This ROE were in place to conduct warfare that will comply with international and local laws within the conditions specified by high rank commanders. However, if rules of engagement are not put in place properly, followed or executed, it could be disastrous. An example could be the situation seen in Vietnam, when the U.S rules of engagement shifted towards some soft rules of engagement which caused a lot of American lives. A lot of the U.S soldiers were killed..(The changing combat rules of engagement: what is one American life worth? 2013). In any war, chain of command is very essential. The chain of command is an effective way to maintain order and to assign and make each accountable to a task. The same principle can be applied directly to

Ethics Theory for the Military Professional by Chaplin (COL) Samuel D. Maloney illustrates the complex ethical decision making process. Army Leaders are responsible for professionally, and ethically develop subordinates. Developing unethical subordinates in a zero defect Army is a leadership challenge. Goal-Oriented Aspirations, Rule-Oriented Obligations, and Situation-Oriented Decisions provide leaders an understanding of the ethical decision making process. The first step to Professionally developing subordinates is identifying, and providing input on all subordinate goals. Leaders are obligated to enforce rules and regulations. Understanding subordinate character provides leaders with the information to evaluate a soldier’s integrity. However,

The motion picture A Few Good Men challenges the question of why Marines obey their superiors’ orders without hesitation. The film illustrates a story about two Marines, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey charged for the murder of Private First Class William T. Santiago. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who is known to be lackadaisical and originally considers offering a plea bargain in order to curtail Dawson’s and Downey’s sentence, finds himself fighting for the freedom of the Marines; their argument: they simply followed the orders given for a “Code Red”. The question of why people follow any order given has attracted much speculation from the world of psychology. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist,

A few good men starring Jack Nicholson Tom Cruise and Demi Moore is about ethic in the marines. Many characters in the movie are faced with moral dillemas Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholsons characters are faced with moral dillemas. The movie is about two marines who are accused of murdering there fellow officer, during the incestigation it is discovered that there is a practice called “code red” this is a unethical and unofficial disciplinary measure by the marine squad when a member goes against the unit. The offender is gagged, beaten, and then they are killed by their fellow officers. The accused put the blame on someone they said was higher up from them. They carried out the “code red” order because the officer was not living up to the

3. Cadets and officers lie under oath in court. It is unacceptable to lie in court. The military has determined that it is essential this case be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. A sub-group in the military can't make its own rules of military morality.

Everyday, people are forced to face with vicious circle of decisions: whether to stick to their morals or obey the authority figure. But it’s a fact that people have a propensity to obey authority, more than to preserve their own morals. A Few Good Men is a film that illustrates the struggle every marine faces-- to follow orders, good or bad. But why would marines follow the orders without hesitation if that order questions the principles they live by? Because the orders in the navy are meant to follow all for the reason of making everyone in Navy into good marines and to be strong enough to defend the nation. It required unquestioning commitment and obedience to orders. The articles, “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram and “The

The movie, "A Few Good Men," is a story about a pair of U.S. Marines that are charged with murder. They feel that their innocence prevails because their acts were committed as direct orders from their superiors, and these types of orders are not disobeyed. As the story unravels, there are many legal issues that we have covered in our class, BU11, The Legal Environment of Business. In this paper, I plan to go over the main legal elements which occur throughout the film.

Lt. Daniel Kaffee uses his Harvard law education to represent two Marines who are being charged for murder in the movie A Few Good Men. Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway

The beliefs, values, and customs that are associated with the armed forces has cultivated into a unique culture within the military community (Hall, 2016, p. 41). In essence, a sub-culture has been established that is distinctly different from the culture of the United States. Thus, those that enter military service resign themselves to the fact that the military lifestyle is a departure from the civilian lifestyle and therefore, will differ from society as a whole. The military itself is rigidly structured, an aspect that essential not just to the military’s purpose, but to its continued existence. Thus, personnel, and by extension their families, are required to not only adhere to the many rules and regulations, but embrace them as well (Hall, 2016). Honor is a central tenet within the armed services and is ingrained within the culture (Hall, 2016). As such, the military mission has created a culture that champions having “the right stuff”, so to speak, and encourages the suppression of feelings and emotions (Hall, 2016, p. 11). Moreover, this warrior society embraces secrecy, stoicism, and denial, as these concepts are viewed as essential ingredients to the success of the self,

Uniform Code of Military Justice (USMJ) is what the military uses to prosecute and court-martial its members. Yet in the UCMJ, Commanders have the authority to overturn a guilty verdict in the case

Both of these go hand in hand. When Jessup goes to the stand he makes it clear that marines under his command never ignore orders, which is odd because Dawson and Downey broke into Santiagos room and murdered him even though Jessup said he ordered the two men not to touch him. A colonel with private rank marines that didn't follow his orders would most likely be pulled from his post. The colonel would see men who didn’t respect him and had lost the authority of command. Low rank military men are afraid to disobey because of the chance of being pulled from the post which is why they must listen to higher military rank.

In order to rebut the statements made against him/her, he/she would have the ability to access a large audience by either; holding a press conference, issuing a statement to the press, making a public statement, or otherwise responding to the defamations. Of course, he/she could also bring a defamation claim against the speaker in court, but he/she would then have to prove actual malice. The initial defamatory statements and the subsequent rebuttal, given by a well-known public figure, would garner the attention of similar audiences. It is due to this attention that the Court rightly included this element in the public figure test; lawsuits brought by those who have been defamed may only be seen as an undesirable alternative means for redress if they are capable of responding to the defamatory remarks outside of court, and are able to mitigate the damages caused by the statements by doing so. The Supreme Court’s position in Gertz, keeping in mind this same archetypal defamation claim, should be understood as aiming to bolster public speech, debate, and the contribution of new ideas into the marketplace of ideas and further striving to avoid the chilling of any type of speech that could be the result of self-censorship. The Court wanted to

When we were younger we were always told by our parents to behave and follow the rules in school and to be nice to the other children. At school they had a set of rules that we were meant to follow and abide by them. Here in the Marine Corps is no different there are many rules and regulations that are meant to be followed under the UCMJ Articles. It’s important to keep following the orders you are given and that you follow these rules exactly like you are ordered to do so. In this essay I will be talking about the following: Disobeying an Order, Disrespect, Discipline, Chain of Command, Unauthorized Absence, and Leadership Principles and Leadership Traits. I will try my best’s efforts to explain everything and show what I have learned in

The military justice system derives its authority from three sources, The Uniform Code of Military Justice, The Manual for Courts Martial, and Army Regulation 27-10. The UCMJ is federal law and forms the base of the military justice system. The UCMJ determines what is to be considered criminal conduct and establishes the various types of courts, and establishes the procedures to be followed in the carrying out of military justice. (FM 27-1, 1992, pg. 1-1)