• Some information might have to be kept secret in order to protect individual and/or operational capability.

• If the military and its actions are as transparent as possible, and people are clearly accountable for their actions, then it can help it to develop its moral code and to promote good conduct.

• Public trust in military can also be maintained and enhanced by people being able to see it is working properly,

• As long as the government is accountable to the people, then the military should be seen to be working for the whole of society rather than vested interests.

Alain Fogue-Tedom, ‘Effective Democratization and the Development of Moral Competencies in the Armed Forces of African States’, in George Lucas (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics, (Routledge, Abingdon, 2015), p120.