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标题：Purple Virtues: A leadership Cure for Unhealthy Rivalry
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作者：Col Eric Ash
期刊名称：Air & Space Power Journal
印刷版ISSN：1554-2505
出版年度：2001
卷号：15
期号：2
页码：32-39
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force, Air University
摘要：AS GREAT AS it is, the .American military still lacks a common Weltanschauung. Its “jointness” comes not from the heart but traces its current popularity to the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. That act forces cooperation by law and personal careerist incentives; however, interservice friction produced by opposition to jointness still exists at many functional and operational levels. People—not systems—are fundamental to jointness. Yet, good teamwork may not be happening. Gen .Anthony Zinni was right on target in a recent US Naval Institute Proceedings article in which he attacked service parochialism.1 Interservice competition for roles, functions, and resources is not necessarily detrimental to the military and can be good, but interservice rivalry and friction based on lack of integrity or other unethical conduct are damaging to national defense efforts. In addition, breaches of integrity are not limited to the interservice domain, for at times the services work very well together from an ethical standpoint. But sometimes they collectively or singularly stoop to poor moral standards when dealing with other decision-making bodies and authorines. such as the Department of Defense (DOD) or Congress.