Military Review English Edition March-April 2015 | Page 79

ETHICS IN COMBAT

America and Grenada, after killing a number of
people, lost much of his ability to cope when he
came to the conclusion that his actions had betrayed
his Christian upbringing, which had taught him to
respect life.35 His moral disengagement and later
realization of a loss of moral identity may have been
prevented if combat training and command had emphasized the principles of jus in bello.
There would have been a doctrine to reinforce
his beliefs and help him come to a moral conclusion
on what he believed about his role and his actions as
a soldier. Albert Bandura defined this process from
a sociological framework, where individual 2F