Military Ethics
The emphasis for the programme leader this past year has been to draft sections for the Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre (formely Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre) during the process rewriting of British Defence Doctrine, 3rd edition.  OUr overarching definitions of the Moral Component, viz Professional Integrity, Leadership and Moral Cohesion, are likely to be accepted, the first-mentioned concept being our own 'brand' of thinking, with 'integrity' being used in a number of convergent meanings, we hope to good effect.  Additionally, the programme leader is an external member of the Subject Matter Group for 'Command Leadership and Management' (CLM) of the Defence Academy, charged with research and syllabus development.

Lectures and presentations broadly on this subject and under the CDiSS banner have been delivered to the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC Sept '05), British Forces Symposia for Non-commissioned Officers (Nov '05) Lubbecke), the Universities of Reading (Jan '06) and Hull (Feb '06).  Further presentations are planned for June '06 on 'Teaching Military Ethics' at the University of Hull and 'Ethics in Asymmetric Warfare' in Holland in October.

Officership
This subject suddenly came to fruition in 2005.  In that year Sandhurst formally recognised Officership as a helpful term, to be used alongside CLM to express largely intangible but professionally significant characteristics and actions expected of those who 'hold military office', primarily but not exclusively those commissioned officers.  On 2 February '06 at the invitation of the Commandant, CDiSS set up and led a Symposium on Officership, to discuss and develop further what is already part of the Sandhurst syllabus.  It was attended by 6 members of Sandhurst's staff.  Martin Edmonds and Patrick Mileham of CDiSS, representatives from Canada and Australia, other academics and appropiriate staff officers from the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force and the Police Service.  Proceedings will be published in due course.

Professional Armed Forces
The findings of the research in the UK for officers of the Armed Forces to define 'The Profession of Arms' were announced at a Panel meeting at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on 1 February '06.  Our aim is to have the concepts and practices of military professionalism be defined and aspire to best practice internationally.  We have defined what we call Professional Disciplines.  There have been four publications so far, three in refered/peer-reviewed articles and one in the RUSI Newsbrief for December 2005.

Participants in the research so far have included the Royal College of Defence Studies, JSCSC and a number of MOD directorates in seminar groups, as well as interviews.  A full survey was carried out in the JSCSC, which included some overseas students.  The findings of this stage in the research will be published in the early Summer, with the purpose of launching the research project overseas later in 2006.  Eventually we would hope to see the research reach out to include not only NATO and EU natios but also all nations in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. 

Patrick Mileham was a Regular Officer in the British Army. For a number of years has been leading programmes and publishing on 'Military Ethics' and the 'Moral Component' for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Royal United Services Institute. He is an External Examiner at the RMA, Sandhurst, Visiting Fellow of the Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College and Reader in Corporate Management and Staff Governor, University of Paisley.