Military power has been acting as a means for the incident of nations and states to exercise the objective of having power and taking over one another. With the continual evolution of times, trend and technology, the magnitude of the nature of the danger and destruction promised by weapons of a military nature has also reached epic proportions. With the use of military power, the component to destruction can be witnessed as far as both the involved parties are concerned. The aftermath of war is always defined by unlimited amounts of destruction to humankind and the world they reside in. Therefore, the use of military power should always be exercised with care and caution. The ethics associated with military demand that the leaders and soldiers stay true to the boundaries of their basic function and ensure that they end up facilitating the protection of the state and its people. When the ethics associated with the institution of military are forgotten, military leaders end up abusing their power.

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