Rhetoric Matters: Inviting Military Overreach with the Sheepdog Analogy

Journal of Military Ethics 20 (1):21-46 (2021)
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Military personnel encounter analogies meant to help them understand their role and tasks. One such depicts military “sheepdogs” protecting ordinary-citizen “sheep” from predator “wolves.” But simp...

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Lawrence Lengbeyer
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