The evolving nature of armed conflict, characterized by a new emphasis on crisis management and peace support, is bringing morality to the forefront of military leadership. The challenges of today’s military operations place a new imperative upon Professional Military Education (PME) to maximize the quality of instruction on ethics in terms of both content and effectiveness. This volume presents the refined proceedings of two conferences of the European Forum on Military Pedagogy dealing with ethical issues of teaching and learning in PME. It explores the philosophical and scientific aspects of current ethical questions, as well as the historical, psychological, and technological dimensions of education in ethics. Further attention is given to ethical and educational implications of asymmetric conflict and warfare.

The Editors: Edwin R. Micewski is social philosopher and Director of the Institute for Human and Social Sciences at the National Defense Academy in Vienna, and visiting professor at the Department of National Security Affairs of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Hubert Annen is senior lecturer for military psychology and military pedagogy and head of the Assessment Center for professional officer candidates at the Swiss Military Academy at the ETH Zurich.