ABSTRACT
When an earlier version of this chapter was presented at a workshop in military ethics at the University of Hull, the content of the presentation below was not picked up in the ensuing dialogue. The fact that the persons making the presentation were chaplains was, however, mentioned by several of the participants. Some questioned the expediency of such an arrangement and argued that in their defence forces it was an important and distinct point that ethics, in increasingly multicultural societies, should not be linked to any religion.
