Book Reviews  From Parameters, Winter 1998, pp. 171-79.  Ethics
and Counter-revolution: American Involvement in Internal Wars.
By Kermit D. Johnson. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America,
1997. 330 pages. $49.00. Reviewed by Chaplain (Colonel) John
Brinsfield, Director of Ethical Program Development, US Army War
College.  Since the end of the Vietnam conflict almost a quarter
century ago, there has been a spectacular display of interest in
the ethics of warfare, and later in the ethics of intervention,
by both the American academic and professional military
communities. By 1982, only seven years after the fall of Saigon,
some 682 books and articles had been produced in America on the
history, theory, and practice of military ethics. Since 1982,
the number has more than doubled.  Chaplain (Major General)
Kermit D. Johnson, Army Chief of Chaplains from 1979 to 1982,
was one of the first to advocate and sponsor advanced seminars
in this field for strategic leaders. In his most recent book,
Ethics and Counter-