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The circumstances of the Spartan's training is a major plot point in "Glasslands" by Karen Traviss. It had not really been addressed very much in the fiction by this point, but the UNSC kidnapped and employed child soldiers, something that is universally agreed upon as illegal, not to mention evil. A substantial portion of the novel follows the journey of one former Spartan-II, who spends much of the book thinking about the consequences of the unethical program.
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Heck, in the end, Margaret Parangosky, head of ONI, uses Dr. Halsey's war crimes as an excuse to arrest her. Interestingly, she comes off as a bit hypocritical when she had authorized the Spartan-III program, which lost more children in battle than the entire Spartan-II program. (Which,considering the contributions of a one "John 117", could be considered the most effective military program in history.)