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The United States has long held to a tradition of following a strict code of conduct when fighting wars. The means of inculcating that code have ranged from implicit mentoring aboard ships or the battlefield, to explicit classes in moral philosophy at the service academies. Consensus, however, has never been achieved on the appropriate means or methods for the moral education of war fighters. Even today, the debate rages over whether the military is being held to a higher moral standard than the civilian society, [1] or whether the means of fighting new global threats should include practices that were formerly forbidden. As each military branch struggles with crafting an ...