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Cowardice is a Vice that is conventionally viewed as the corruption of Prudence . Cowardice may be considered to be prudence that does not take consequences to their furthest extent.


US MILITARY DEFINITION OF COWARDICE

As a legal definition, according to Subchapter X, Section 899, Article 99 {Link without Title} of the United States Uniform Code Of Military Justice , cowardice is defined as "Misbehavior Before the Enemy" and includes such acts as:
  • Running away from an enemy;

  • Abandoning, surrendering or otherwise fleeing any post that the soldier is tasked with defending;

  • Endangering the safety of any post that the soldier is responsible for through disobedience, neglect or willful misconduct while in combat;

  • Discarding arms or ammunition while in combat;

  • Abandoning combat to plunder or loot or commit other crimes;

  • Willfully failing to do all within the soldier's power to fight or defend when it is his duty to do so, while in combat;

  • Refusing to give any needed aid or relief to fellow troops while in combat; or

  • Performing other unspecified acts of "cowardly conduct" while in combat.


According to the UCMJ, the maximum punishment for cowardice is the Death Penalty . Cowardice can, by definition, only be charged during a time of and in an area of armed conflict.


ETYMOLOGY

According to the ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', the word "coward" comes from an Old French word ''coart'', a combination of the word for "tail" and an agent noun suffix. It would therefore have meant "one with a tail" — perhaps one in the habit of turning it.

The English Surname Coward, however, has the same origin and meaning as the word "cowherd".