The role of character is so important that the U.S. Military Academy (“West Point”) makes developing leaders of character a central component of its mission statement. Each year, West Point graduates ...

Stanley Milgram’s notorious obedience experiment shocked the world—literally. In the 1960s, he asked participants to deliver what they believed were painful electric shocks to a stranger, simply ...

The military gives a lot of thought to character and its importance in achieving its mission. The idea that positive character is essential to military success is based on millennia of practical ...