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The Petty Officer's Guide is written and edited by petty officers
for petty officers. It is designed to ensure Navy Petty Officers
are ready to fight and win wars at sea, under the sea, in the air,
on land, and in outer space and cyberspace by exposing junior Petty
Officers to innovative and modern leadership methodologies. Serving
as the premiere leadership guide to junior Navy Petty Officers, it
enhances development processes and tools such as the Navy Leader
Development Framework, Education for Sea Power, Sailor 360, and
Enlisted Leader Development courses. Furthermore, it reinforces
modern lines of effort identified in the Chief of Naval Operations'
Design for Maritime Superiority and promotes the development of
innovative leaders and strategic thinkers. This guide provides
unique insights into the values, beliefs, attitudes, and skills
that enable the success of naval leaders, how Petty Officers can
use power bases, influence tactics, and managerial skills to
achieve objectives, and how to influence their peers in support of
organizational objectives to achieve the mission accomplishment.
Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner
scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral
dimensions of their psychological injuries-guilt, shame, feeling
responsible for doing wrong or being wronged-elude conventional
treatment. Georgetown philosophy professor Nancy Sherman turns her
focus to these moral injuries inAfterwar. She argues that
psychology and medicine alone are inadequate to help with many of
the most painful questions veterans are bringing home from war.
Trained in both ancient ethics and psychoanalysis, and with twenty
years of experience working with the military, Sherman draws on
in-depth interviews with servicemen and women to paint a richly
textured and compassionate picture of the moral and psychological
aftermath of America's longest wars. She explores how veterans can
go about reawakening their feelings without becoming
re-traumatized; how they can replace resentment with trust; and the
changes that need to be made in order for this to happen-by
military courts, VA hospitals, and the civilians who have been
shielded from the heaviest burdens of war. 2.6 million soldiers are
currently returning home from war, the greatest number since
Vietnam. Facing an increase in suicides and post-traumatic stress,
the military has embraced measures such as resilience training and
positive psychology to heal mind as well as body. Sherman argues
that some psychological wounds of war need a kind of healing
through moral understanding that is the special province of
philosophical engagement and listening.
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