Educational Resources

In last month’s “Front and Center,” we encountered Josef Pieper’s definition of virtues as “perfected abilities,” and thus the important virtue of prudence is the…

Last month, we examined the first part of a course in ethics for warrant officers in Basic School. The course begins, properly, by defining key…

Part of the mission of the Al Gray Marine Leadership Forum at Carolina Museum of the Marine is to make available to the general public…

In 1981, Admiral James Stockdale delivered the Andrew R. Cecil Lecture on Morals in a Free Society. The lecture is titled “Education for Leadership and…

            For the past twelve months, we have looked at the eleven principles of Marine Corps leadership and the fourteen traits of a leader. Part…

The Marine Corps recognizes eleven principles of leadership and fourteen traits of leaders. In this and coming editions of “Front and Center,” we will present…

Last month, we considered the first principle of leadership recognized by the Marine Corps: Know yourself and seek self-improvement. We considered also the first trait of a leader: Justice….

In an essay titled “On Remembering Who We Are,” the late Melvin Bradford observed the following: “Yet as [Michael] Oakeshott insists, moral conduct is an…

Last month, we considered the Marine Corps leadership principle of knowing one’s people and looking out for their welfare. The next principle, keep your Marine…

In his excellent book Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Albert Jay Nock discusses in part his impatience with what he calls “social legislation” aimed at improving society…

Marine Corps recruits at Parris Island, South Carolina have the interesting experience of a pattern guiding the way drill instructors train them. In an ordinary…