국방 패러다임 변화에 따른 군인의 가치관 재정립의 필요성에 관한 연구

Abstract

On December 1, 1948, the Korean military established a kind of service creed ‘the three great oaths of the Armed Forces,’ that contained the spiritual basis of the Korean military after its founding. On March 15, 1966, when The Military Service Regulations were enacted, six elements of the soldier spirit were specified, including honor, loyalty, courage, conviction, the spirit of knowing no retreat at the battlefield, and the spirit of patriotism. ‘The Basic Law on the Status and Service of Soldiers’, which was enacted on December 29, 2015, is still maintained. Decades later, the study began to question why the soldier spirit and the desirable values of soldiers should remain unchanged, even though the environment changes and the national defense paradigm have undergone major changes. Research results that among the six values(soldier spirit) that are currently required as soldiers, ‘honour, loyalty, courage, the belief of victory, the spirit of knowing no retreat at the battlefield’, ‘true courage’ and ‘the spirit of knowing no retreat at the battlefield’ could be replaced by the value of respect for fame. That is to say, "To a soldier the highest honor is to die fighting in battle for victory" was judged to contain its meaning and value sufficiently. Although the values to be added vary, it was judged that negative values outside and outside the military were necessary to overcome such values as strong authoritarianism, arbitrary(exclusive) ability, control-oriented culture, formalism, selfishness, battingness, and exclusivity. As a result of the review, ‘commitment(commitment to one's country)’ and ‘unity(unity in one)’ and ‘respect and consideration’ were selected as future-oriented military personnel's values(the agenda). In addition, considering the characteristics of the new military culture, the values and culture to be positive and to be strengthened and expanded at present are maximized, negative and need to minimize values and cultures to be reduced(sweep away). They also presented a strategic approach to how to establish the selected values as the major behavioral patterns or symbolic structures of military organizations and establish them as shared beliefs and cultures. I hope this study will become the foot of awareness and empathy about the need to improve the values of soldiers. And what is lacking is that experts in the field expect to establish themselves in a more in-depth study and various discussions in the future into military culture.