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WASHINGTON — Along with a steady diet of books on leadership and management, the reading list at military “charm schools” that groom officers for ascending to general or admiral includes an essay, “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders,” that recalls the moral failure of the Old Testament’s King David, who ordered a soldier on a mission of certain death — solely for the chance to take his wife, Bathsheba.
The not-so-subtle message: Be careful out there, and act better.
Despite the warnings, a worrisomely large number of senior officers have been investigated and even fired for poor judgment, malfeasance and sexual improprieties or sexual violence — and that is just in the last year."................
March 9, 1998 there was an op-ed in Navy Times titled "Problem is leadership, not the economy" written by Paul Maubert. It addresses an aspect of this and I thought it was insightful enough to keep it.
I could not find it on line perhaps a better researcher who is interested could find it. I did find another piece that references it and quotes from it.
