A Study On The Cultivation Of U.S. Army's Professional Military Ethics

The U.S. Army's Professional Military Ethic (PME) is the derived product of the combination of U.S. traditional culture and American military thoughts, it is an important part of U.S. Army's political work. Owing to the increasingly complex moral environment and the new form of war, U.S. Army has been strengthening the cultivation of PME, aiming at tightening the overall political control of the officers and ensuring the enhancement of officer's combat volition. Its ultimate purpose is insuring that U.S. Army could strictly perform all the orders which come from the U.S. bourgeois government.The study, based on literature research method and dialectical analysis, has comprehensively and systematically analyzed the connotation, history, training purpose, systematic structure, main approaches and characteristics of PME. The paper reveals the panorama, the fundamental purpose and natural requirements of PME. Although the PME cultivation is the bourgeois army's political working method, it still has some positive and beneficial ingredients. It is beneficial for us to study the PME cultivation and absorb its positive ingredients. It could provide a nice reference for our Army to strengthen the ethical cultivation.Our Army has established the strategic goal, which is"to explore the establishment of professional military system with Chinese characteristics". By the guidance of this goal, it is very necessary for us to build and develop our Army's Professional Military Ethics. Based on the excellent tradition of our Army's ethical cultivation and referred to the U.S. Army's PME cultivation, the paper proposes the initial idea of building and developing our Army's Professional Military Ethics. Meanwhile, the paper provides the approaches of this practice.