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In recent years there has been increased discussion of virtue ethics and its potential value to the United States Military. Since work done by ancient virtue ethicists such as Aristotle on virtues like courage appear to have special application to the character of servicemen, it might seem that the virtue ethics approach to moral theory and moral character development is promising. However, there are some serious deficiencies in this approach, deficiencies that threaten to leave our military men and women entirely without a moral compass. In this essay I will identify these deficiencies, offer a careful critique that delimits the value of virtue approaches, and then take the primary strengths of virtue theories and address the potential relationship that the Army's core values have to traditional virtues.