Comments on: Military analysts and industry-sponsored CME http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/military-analysts-and-industry.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/04/military-analysts-and-industry.html#comment-85176 Anonymous Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/04/military-analysts-and-industry-sponsored-cme.html#comment-85176 Our culture no longer values personal integrity over careerism and institutional loyalty. In the early stages of the Iraq war, a commentator was viewed with slack-jawed amazement by the other talking heads and the host when he insisted that the military officers should have resigned rather than let the white house force them to go into the mission with forces that were inadequate in their professional judgement. What was telling was that the commentator who made that remark, I believe a retired colonel, who had been on every night for weeks, was not to be seen again. I can only assume that they considered that an outlandish position--even though it is what my father taught me and what Robert Gates is telling current Cadets is needed from them. Truth over loyalty. <br/><br/>I have come to see institutional ethics as destructive of personal integrity and the term "team player" an insult. Our culture no longer values personal integrity over careerism and institutional loyalty. In the early stages of the Iraq war, a commentator was viewed with slack-jawed amazement by the other talking heads and the host when he insisted that the military officers should have resigned rather than let the white house force them to go into the mission with forces that were inadequate in their professional judgement. What was telling was that the commentator who made that remark, I believe a retired colonel, who had been on every night for weeks, was not to be seen again. I can only assume that they considered that an outlandish position–even though it is what my father taught me and what Robert Gates is telling current Cadets is needed from them. Truth over loyalty.

I have come to see institutional ethics as destructive of personal integrity and the term “team player” an insult.

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