“A very timely work to help strengthen our understanding of what it means to be a professional fighting force in the twenty-first century.”

Lieutenant General Rick Burr, AO, DSC, MVO, Chief of the Australian Army

“… a great volume composed of varied perspectives that provide insight and historic context so we can maintain and cultivate our profession for the coming decades.”

Major General John Kem, USA, Commandant, U.S. Army War College

“… a conversation that not only reflects on where the profession stands today, but perhaps more importantly, how our civilian-led institutions adapt our military to the future nature of warfare and the increasingly heavy responsibility placed on the individual citizen-service member.”

Daniel Feehan, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness)

Redefining the Modern Military astutely describes why both competence and character are vital to leadership in the military profession.”

Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr., USA (Ret.), former Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy

“Today’s true military professionals will find much in this collection to set their necessarily ambitious, but essentially pragmatic, reform agendas.”

Lieutenant General Sir Paul Newton, KBE, CBE, MPhil, UK Army (Ret.), Director, Strategy and Security Institute, University of Exeter, and former Commander, Force Development and Training

“This book fuels the necessary conversation to make every curious reader a better warrior. Bravo Zulu!”

Rear Admiral Peg Klein, USN (Ret.), former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism

“[A] must-read for anyone who cares about professional military education or civil-military relations.”

Jim Golby, PhD, former Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Special Advisor to Vice Presidents Joe Biden & Mike Pence

“This outstanding collection provides the essential context for military professionals who wish both to take their profession seriously and to develop a better understanding of themselves and their peers.”

Major General Andrew R.D. Sharpe, CBE, PhD (Cantab), UK Army (Ret.), Director of the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, former Director of the UK Ministry of Defence’s independent think-tank, the Development, Concepts, and Doctrine Centre

“Finney and Mayfield have assembled a masterful exploration of ethics and the profession of arms.”

Major General Mick Ryan, Commander, Australian Defence College

“Practitioners and scholars of the military profession will find this collection to be an invaluable source for insight and inspiration.”

Dr. J. P. Clark, author of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815–1917

“Finney and Mayfield have put together an important volume on the profession of arms and ethics.”

Colonel Celestino Perez Jr., Professor, U.S. Army War College

“This comprehensive text is the closest any student can get to ‘one-stop shopping’ on the topic of the U.S. military profession.”

Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II, Editor, Parameters, and author of Reconsidering the American Way of War: U.S. Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan

“The arguments offered in these pages are as shrewd as they are important.”

Spencer D. Bakich, Director of the National Security Program at the Virginia Military Institute, and author of Success and Failure in Limited War: Information & Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

“An awesome example of collaborative writing to elevate the discourse in the profession of arms.”

The Military Writers Guild