In early September 2014, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) took the unusual step of calling on governments to deploy military, as well as civilian, assets to help combat the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic raging in West Africa (MSF, 2014). The UK government announced a package of aid in response to the outbreak, including the deployment of military experts, targeted primarily on Sierra Leone. (Gov.UK 2014) The scale of the outbreak and the responses to it attracted comment from many quarters and raised ethical issues. We were interested in the ethical challenges that would confront the troops on the ground in Sierra Leone, particularly those who were healthcare professionals. We successfully secured UK funding council research funds to explore these challenges. During the preparatory stages of this project, however, it became clear that ethical decisions had also been made during the planning stages of the deployment in anticipation of issue that may be faced on the deployment. These planning issues are of interest in their own right, even though they fell outside the aims of our project, and we explore of some these in this chapter
