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What Would You Do? — Incident at Shkin

By Capt. Bob Schoultz, USN-Ret. Courtesy of Capt. Rick Rubel, USN-Ret. – September 8, 2009
A combat leader has to decide how much force to use in a military operation and must weigh the possibility of injury or death of innocent noncombatants against the risk to which he might expose his troops. In this case, the commander accepts some risk to his troops to protect the innocent.

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What Would You Do?

Servicemembers often face complicated ethical dilemmas, whether in combat or in the normal course of duty. Each month Capt. Rick Rubel, USN-Ret., distinguished professor of ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, presents a real-life example of such a dilemma and asks what you would do in this situation.

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