Ethical Analysis Of The Movie Saving Private Ryan

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

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 purpose of this counselled essay is to explain my understanding and importance of following orders. This essay will have several sections to explain different areas where following orders effects. . I will cover the significance of following orders within the unit, prominence of following order within the artillery world, results of failure to follow orders, and how following orders will help me in the future. The importance of these procedures created by my superiors are apparent in a soldier’s daily life.

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

A true sense of morality is a difficult concept to grasp as what is socially acceptable and what is not is challenged quite often by the circumstances that decisions must be made under. Morality changes when there is a crime involved as was the case with Mary Surratt in Robert Redford's film The Conspirator. In Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the morals that are put into enlisted members of the Marines is another example of moral ambiguity during the times of war. Moral ambiguity in crime is the idea that things are not always black or white, that some decisions must take more things into consideration than just the severity of the issue at hand.

Ethics matter in any kind of business or organization, but they are especially significant when it comes to the US Army (Blackburn, 2001). The reason behind this involves the chain of command and the risk to life and limb that are such large parts of military life. When a soldier in the Army has no ethics, he or she can cause trust and respect problems with other members of his or her unit. The US military is a stressful organization for most people involved with it, and people's lives are on the line frequently. Issues like PTSD and other medical problems are commonplace for those who leave the military and must adjust to civilian life, so it is very important that those who are in the Army work with their colleagues and higher-ups to get the help and support they need during and after their service. There is more to ethics in the Army than the problems that military individuals can face, though.

While these three points are extensively discussed and dissected, it is apparent that the key factor that makes us professionals is the ethical standard that we must hold every individual soldier, from the lowest private to the highest general, to. One of the major points that are missing is what happens when the ethical standard is breeched and how it is dealt with.

In 2003, I was witness to this ethical dilemma first hand. I, like so many of my peers, was preparing for an upcoming deployment. There were unfilled positions within the battalion to be sure. Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) struggled with plans to ensure a successful rotation despite this. However, at no time did a single NCO ever consider just simply stopping a pending chapter to fill a position. Nevertheless, this was our guidance for every case that concerned an overweight Soldier. That one broad ranging directive from the brigade immediately placed every NCO into an ethical dilemma. The brigade expected us to ignore the Army standards so that we could implement a quick fix solution to our problems.

Combating in modern warfare does not simply mean killing the enemy. There are ethical rules and standards of behavior that soldiers must strictly follow because these rules are essential for defeating the enemy, winning "hearts and minds" of potential allies, and maintain the morale of the troops. These tasks have become especially challenging in the face of the proliferation of guerilla warfare that has been adopted by weaker military forces in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. In fighting insurgencies, abiding by the ethical standards of the Army behavior may be even harder than in fighting conventional battles. The ethical rules may sometimes put the soldiers in dangerous positions. Disregarding the acceptable standards of behavior, however, may have even graver consequences, putting innocent non-combatants at risk and risking total demoralization of the Army unit participating in disorderly behavior. It is therefore essential that Army leaders maintain an ethical command climate during the war.

A total of 416,800 American soldiers lost their lives in protection of their homeland and the land of their allies during World War Two (“Research Starters”). The soldiers in Steven Spielberg’s film, Saving Private Ryan, would question the worth of their own lives in their journey to save the life of another. During World War Two, a mother of four sons is scheduled to receive, on the same day, the tragic news that three of her sons died in battle. Captain John H. Miller and crew are tasked with bringing the remaining son, who was dropped behind enemy lines before D-Day, home safely. The squad suffers many trials in their journey to save Private Ryan; in these trials, the true character of the soldiers is revealed. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well (“Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes”).

When Captain Miller and his squad are given their suicide mission to find Private Ryan, they, question and resist their mission. This makes one believe that the soldiers at this point have little faith and trust in the political system and are tired war. They do show that they respect the system

I don't care. The man means nothing to me. It's just a name. But if... You know if going to Rumelle and finding him so that he can go home. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that's my mission” (Spielberg, 1998). His last words on the soldiers wish to abandon the mission are, “You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? All right. All right. I won't stop you. I'll even put in the paperwork. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel”, thus defusing the situation and comparing the current situation to how bad it could be if they weren’t on this special mission (Spielberg, 1998). They continue the mission and finally find Ryan. However, he is refusing to abandon his post as they are holding one of the last bridges remaining that will allow the Allies to continue the offensive. The men join with Ryan’s unit, and make a stand to hold the bridge. Most of the men die, including the captain. His final words are, “James, earn this... earn it” (Spielberg, 1998). The last scene is of Ryan as an old man with his family. After receiving validation from his wife, he salutes and leaves with his

The Film ‘Saving private ryan’ directed by ‘Steven Spielberg’ is about American soldiers going into World War 1. It shows how the soldiers went through the war which ruined lives of the American soldiers for the worst. The film focuses on many aspects of how the film demonstrates how it ruins lives for the worst. Spielberg shows us that the battle was not worth it and ruins lives for the worst.

Saving Private Ryan is a film based on a true story that follows eight soldiers on their mission to save one man. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this Oscar winning World War II film is based on the Niland brothers who were members of the US Army during World War II. Three of the four brothers were killed in action leaving one brother, who was promptly shipped back to their family, so they would not lose all of their sons. Likewise, Saving Private Ryan is based on a squad that is searching for the last surviving brother of four from the Ryan family. The movie follows eight Rangers, led by Captain Miller as they go deep into enemy lines in an attempt to save this Private Ryan, assuming that he was still alive. Throughout the film the soldiers constantly complain and contemplate whether the mission was worth risking their lives for, and challenges the viewers to do the same. In addition, Spielberg continues to challenge the viewers by ‘throwing some wrenches’ into the plot, leaving the viewers with mixed emotions. Before finding Ryan, the squad loses two soldiers to enemy fire and has an encounter with a German soldier that puts the theme of humanity to the test. By the end of the film six out of the eight Rangers were killed trying to save Ryan, including Captain Miller. The film explores many themes and allows the viewers to decide whether the sacrifice and mission was worth it. One of the four warrior ethos of the US Army is, “I will always place the mission first,” in the

The Analysis of Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg Analyse he methods used to make the opening sequence of ‘Saving