the decision to engage and neutralise threats to the national security of Barbados, thereby placing themselves in harm’s way to uphold of this beautiful island Barbados, our island home. All BDF ranks share the legal right and duty to defend persons and territory according to their orders, and an unlimited liability to give their lives if required in doing so. This is the unique universal nature of the profession of arms, handed down through the generations and still necessary and relevant today. The grave responsibilities resting on each serviceperson’s shoulders mean that military effectiveness cannot be based on functional output alone. Unless a military organisation is focused on higher external ethics, it risks moral bankruptcy and furthermore, unless there is a sufficiently satisfactory administrative and logistics support system in place, morale (a principle of war and an
the decision to engage and neutralise threats to the national security of Barbados, thereby placing themselves in harm’s way to uphold of this beautiful island Barbados, our island home. All BDF ranks share the legal right and duty to defend persons and territory according to their orders, and an unlimited liability to give their lives if required in doing so. This is the unique universal nature of the profession of arms, handed down through the generations and still necessary and relevant today. The grave responsibilities resting on each serviceperson’s shoulders mean that military effectiveness cannot be based on functional output alone. Unless a military organisation is focused on higher external ethics, it risks moral bankruptcy and furthermore, unless there is a sufficiently satisfactory administrative and logistics support system in place, morale (a principle of war and an
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