Military and Defence Ethics: Military and Defence Ethics
About the Book Series
There is an urgent and growing need for all those involved in matters of national defence - from policy makers to armaments manufacturers to members of the armed forces - to behave, and to be seen to behave, ethically. The ethical dimensions of making decisions and taking action in the defence arena are the subject of intense and ongoing media interest and public scrutiny. It is vital that all those involved be given the benefit of the finest possible advice and support. Such advice is best sought from those who have great practical experience or theoretical wisdom (or both) in their particular field and publication of their work in this series will ensure that it is readily accessible to all who need it.
The Ethics of Military Privatization: The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
1st Edition
By David M. Barnes
March 31, 2021
This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic ...
Making the Military Moral: Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Don Carrick, James Connelly, David Whetham
September 30, 2020
This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military. In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’ has to ...
Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel: Dealing with Epidemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Messelken, David Winkler
June 30, 2020
This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports from ...
Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War
1st Edition
By James E. Hickey
May 22, 2017
James Hickey proceeds from the premise that throughout history, humans have demonstrated a proclivity for using violence against one another as a means to achieve an end, means enabled, in many respects, by the technologies available at the time. Advancing technology has often been a prime enabler ...
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape
1st Edition
By Jai Galliott
April 13, 2017
Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are ...
From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan: British Military Intelligence Operations, Ethics and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Jon Moran
February 27, 2017
Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have followed these operations; and to examine the ...
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict: Theoretical and Practical Issues for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Igor Primoratz, David W. Lovell
October 19, 2016
There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction between combatant and non-combatant should be respected. But what are the fundamental ethical questions about civilian immunity? Are new styles of conflict ...
When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military
1st Edition
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By Andrea Ellner, Paul Robinson, David Whetham
October 19, 2016
Traditionally few people challenged the distinction between absolute and selective conscientious objection by those being asked to carry out military duties. The former is an objection to fighting all wars - a position generally respected and accommodated by democratic states, while the latter is ...
Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Michael L. Gross, Don Carrick
October 10, 2016
As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military ...
The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetrical
1st Edition
By Pauline M. Kaurin
April 21, 2016
When it comes to thinking about war and warriors, first there was Achilles, and then the rest followed. The choice of the term warrior is an important one for this discussion. While there has been extensive discussion on what counts as military professionalism, that is what makes a soldier, sailor ...
New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
1st Edition
By Paolo Tripodi, Jessica Wolfendale
July 09, 2012
Bringing together contributors from philosophy, international relations, security studies, and strategic studies, New Wars and New Soldiers offers a truly interdisciplinary analysis reflective of the nature of modern warfare. This comprehensive approach allows the reader to see the broad scope of ...
Kantian Thinking about Military Ethics
1st Edition
By J. Carl Ficarrotta
February 28, 2010
Kantian-inspired approaches to ethics are a hugely important part of the philosophical landscape in the 21st century, yet the lion's share of the work done in service of these approaches has been at the theoretical level. Moreover, when we survey writing in which Kantian-inspired thinkers address ...