Military ethics

Who should die?: the ethics of killing in war

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War remains a grim fixture of the human landscape, and because of its tremendous and ongoing impact on the lives of millions of people, has always attracted the attention of careful, rigorous, and empathetic moral philosophers. And while war is synonymous with death and ruin, ve…

Who should die?: liability, rights, and the moral context of killi…

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"This academic text brings together, in one volume, the most recent and innovative accounts of liability in war. It offers a "who's who" of contemporary scholars working on and rigorously debating the major ethical questions surrounding self-defense and killing in war, including…

Who should die?: the ethics of killing in war

0 Type: Book

"This academic text brings together, in one volume, the most recent and innovative accounts of liability in war. It offers a "who's who" of contemporary scholars working on and rigorously debating the major ethical questions surrounding self-defense and killing in war, including…

Who should die?: the ethics of killing in war

0 Type: Book

"This academic text brings together, in one volume, the most recent and innovative accounts of liability in war. It offers a "who's who" of contemporary scholars working on and rigorously debating the major ethical questions surrounding self-defense and killing in war, including…

Weighing lives in war

fromEthics, national security, and the rule of law series

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Présentation de l'éditeur : "The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issue…

Weighing lives in war

fromEthics, national security, and the rule of law series

0 Type: Book

"The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war i…

Weighing lives in war

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The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in…

Ethical challenges for military health care personnel: dealing with epidemics

fromMilitary and Defence Ethics

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"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 combin…

Soft war: the ethics of unarmed conflict

by Walzer, Michael

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Just war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing 'softer' alternatives or sup…

The Ethics of Insurgency: a Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare

by Gross, Michael L.

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As insurgencies rage, a burning question remains: How should insurgents fight technologically superior state armies? Commentators rarely ask this question because the catchprase "we fight by the rules, but they don't" is nearly axiomatic. But truly, are all forms of guerrilla wa…

The ethics of insurgency: a critical guide to just guerrilla warfare

by Gross, Michael L.

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As insurgencies rage, a burning question remains: how should insurgents fight technologically superior state armies? Commentators rarely ask this question because the catchphrase 'we fight by the rules, but they don't' is nearly axiomatic. But truly, are all forms of guerrilla w…