Core Value Education Of The U.S. Armed Forces And The Implications To Our Armies

Nowadays core value education activities are performed among the PLA. Traditions and a world sight are both necessary in these activities,and successful examples of the foreign armed forces especially the U.S. armed forces must be taken into consideration. Through analyzing the main idea, education departments, staff and means of the core value education of the U.S. armed forces in this thesis, we gain several implications to the core value education in our armies.This Paper is divided into four parts.The first Part presents the main idea of the core value of the U.S. armed forces.In order to resolve contradiction and conflicts arise in the army, each service of the U.S. armed forces put forward their core values. Though their representations are different, the core values are of the same kind, mainly about loyalty, duty, devotion, honor, courage, respect, integrity, etc.The second part Explains the faculty of the core value education of the U.S. armed forces. Instead of the political institute, the U.S. Armed forces have department of publicity and education, and of military history. Officers, priests and sergeants work together for the core value education.The third part illustrates the means of the core value education of the U.S. armed forces.Through value implantation, the effectiveness of religion, the norms of moral code and military training, the U.S. armed forces achieved good effects when carry out the core value education. Besides, the role of social groups and individuals, the examples of military officers, and the influence of military culture are all very important in core value education.The last part explores the implications to our armies. When use their theory of core value education as reference, we should take the essence and discard the dregs. The establishment of our core value education system and its rules of education should base on the practices of the PLA, and military culture should be developed to reflect the values of military soldiers. The exemplary vanguard role of officers and sergeants should be given full play, and the inspection of the effects of the core value education should be reinforced to promote the further development of core value education in our armies.