La dimensione giuridica dell'etica militare

Abstract

Unlike what happens for the civil administration, in which it conforms exclusively from a reputational perspective, the legal dimension of military ethics has a profile of characterization related, not only to the functions attributed to the Armed Forces, but, more precisely, to the role that they have in the constitutional structure. Military ethics has, in fact, an external declination, based on the neutrality of the military instrument with respect to political dynamics as an institution of guarantee and defense of republican institutions; and an internal, intimate interpretation connected to the organization as a factor of cohesion and functionality of the same in the framework designed by the discipline and by the hierarchical principle. The paper presents an examination of these two variations, highlighting the specialty of the military administration compared to the civil one.