Profession Of Arms Summary

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The Profession Of Arms, An Army White Paper Summary
Throughout the course of American history, professionalism has been the cornerstone of The U.S. Army and its relationship with the American Republic. What dictates the criteria of a professional army, is a constant review and dialogue amongst every echelon. In an attempt to improve, U.S. Army TRADOC’s The Profession Of Arms reviews and discusses the current status of what it means to be a professional in the armed service while prescribing methods that will further maintain and standardize what it means to be a member of the U.S. Army. The purpose of this document is to summarize The Profession Of Arms briefly while highlighting the important aspects of professionalism that this White Paper …show more content…

1). Regardless of how these questions are asked, the author mentions that “The Army is not a profession just because we say so” (CAPE, 2010, p. 1). This statement alone keeps the Army mindset in check that we cannot label ourselves as professionals just to maintain a label. We must also follow through with the actual practice and application of professionalism to earn said label. These three questions also serve as a thought framework to be referenced back to as the reader progresses through the White …show more content…

These four realms are separate yet also intertwined given the author’s explanation of how they “generate and employ ethical combat power to achieve operational adaptability across the full spectrum of operations” (CAPE, 2010, p. 7). Following expertise, the author describes the levels of Army Culture: artifacts, espoused beliefs and values, and basic underlying assumptions. These concepts all function at a certain, socially constructed echelon within an Army unit (CAPE, 2010, p. 10).
In addition to ethics, this paper discusses moral values in terms of the how and why we fight. This concept then progresses towards a discussion of moral values and how this intertwines with the development of personal character and one’s morals (CAPE, 2010, p. 13). For the rest of this White Paper, morals and ethics tend to be a concept that is referred back to on multiple

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