From Will to Act: the Structure of Carrying out Orders

Abstract

In my article I am focusing on a special aspect of military leadership which has earned little attention. This phenomenon is the special reason for carrying out military orders that orders give help for soldiers to answering their military reasons. In harmony with this claim I examine the compound structure of the reasons of carrying out military orders, which has three parts. These are: orders give help for soldiers to answering their military reasons; orders are issued only by people having proper military rank and status; and the proper rank and status were earned on the base of the honour of their bearer, or in the absence of the proper rank and status orders can be issued by people having military honour. These parts of the structure of the reasons for carrying out orders can be considered separately only by way of theoretical examination and in reality they constitute a unity.