George Lucas is Professor of Ethics and Public Policy Emeritus, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, and Distinguished Chair of Ethics (retired), U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He is author of Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (2015), Anthropologists in Arms (2009) and editor of Ethics and the Military Profession (2008).

Foreword, General Martin E. Dempsey Introduction: On the Very Idea of 'Ethics' and a 'Military Profession' George R. Lucas, Jr PART I: The Moral Foundations of the Military Profession 1: Military Ethics: A Discipline in Crisis, Alasdair C. MacIntyre 2: American Military Professions and their Ethics, Don M. Snider 3: A Profession Like No Other, Patricia Cook PART II: Jus Ante Bellum: Preparing the Military Profession for its Moral Obligations4: The Ethics of Military Ethics Education, Richard Schoonhoven 5: Jus Ante Bellum: Principles of Pre-War Conduct, Roger Wertheimer 6: Selective Conscientious Objection, Paul Robinson 7: Military Culture and War Crimes, Jessica Wolfendale 8: Military Ethics and Character Development, Martin L. Cook 9: Ethics in the US Navy, Vice Admiral Walter E. Carter, Jr 10: Effective Democratization and the Development of Moral Competencies in the Armed Forces of African State Alain Fogue Tedom 11: Expeditionary Ethics Education, David Whetham PART III: Military Ethics and Professionalism Across Nations and Cultures 12: Military Ethics in Variant Cultural Traditions: Warrior Codes Revisited, Shannon E. French 13: Military Ethics: From Theory to Practice, Brigadier General Benoit Royal 14: Military Ethics in Sun Tzu's Art of War and its Contemporary Significance, Col. Shang Wei 15: Three Synoptic Views of China's 'People's Liberation Army' on Military Ethics and Justified War, Ping-cheung Lo 16: Japanese Warfare Ethics, Vice Admiral Fumio Ota.../part contents