Empowering Our Military Conscience

Author : Roger Wertheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317144120

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Empowering Our Military Conscience by Roger Wertheimer Pdf

Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) with contributions by distinguished ethical theorists. It refreshes our thinking about the axioms of just war orthodoxy, the intellectual and political history of just war theorizing, and the justice of recent military doctrines and ventures. The volume also explores a neglected moral dimension of warfare, jus ante bellum (the ethics of pre-war practices) - particularly jus in disciplina bellica (the ethics of educating for warfare). Using metaphor to exemplify the professionalization of the military, the book exposes ambivalences within military professionals' concepts of their professional responsibilities, analyzes issues of self-respect posed by service in an unjust cause, and surveys the deep conflicts inherent in PMEE. While primarily focused on US military academies, the volume will resonate with those responsible for education in military academies across the globe.

Author : George Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317801764

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Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics by George Lucas Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas and clusters of moral principles held in common by all practitioners of this profession, regardless of nation or culture. Comprising essays by contributors drawn from the four service branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine corps) as well as civilian academics specializing in this field, this handbook discusses the relationship of "ethics" in the military setting to applied and professional ethics generally. Leading scholars and senior military practitioners from countries including the US, UK, France, China, Australia and Japan, discuss various national cultural views of the moral dimensions of military service. With reference to the responsibilities of professional orientation and education, as well as the challenges posed by recent technological developments, this handbook examines the difficulties underpinning the fundamental framework of military service. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war theory, ethics philosophy, sociology, war and conflict studies, and security studies.

Author : George R. Lucas, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351745178

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Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century by George R. Lucas, Jr. Pdf

This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz’s original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the field. This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.

Author : James McCarty,Matthew Tapie,Justin Bronson Barringer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532641060

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The Business of War by James McCarty,Matthew Tapie,Justin Bronson Barringer Pdf

The Business of War incisively interrogates the development and contemporary implications of the military-industrial complex. It exposes the moral dangers of life in neoliberal economies dependent upon war-making for their growth and brings the Christian tradition's abundance of resources into conversation with this phenomenon. In doing so, the authors invite us to rethink the moral possibilities of Christian life in the present day with an eye toward faithful resistance to "the business of war" and its influence in every aspect of our lives. In combining biblical, historical, theological, and ethical analyses of "the business of war," the authors invite us to better understand it as a new moral problem that demands a new, faithful response. With contributions from: Pamela Brubaker Stan Goff Christina McRorie Logan Mehl-Laituri Kara Slade Won Chul Shin David Swartz Jonathan Tran Myles Werntz Matthew Whelan Tobia Winright

Author : Joakim Berndtsson,Christopher Kinsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317042211

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The Routledge Research Companion to Security Outsourcing by Joakim Berndtsson,Christopher Kinsey Pdf

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions. Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western states that are actively involved in expeditionary operations as well as the rise of the commercial security sector in Afghanistan. To explain the various theoretical frameworks that students can use to study security/military outsourcing, Part Two outlines the theories behind security outsourcing. Part Three examines the law and ethics surrounding the outsourcing of security by focusing on how states might monitor contractor behaviour, hold them to account and prosecute them where their behaviour warrants such action. The drivers, politics and consequences of outsourcing foreign policy are covered in Part Four, which is divided into two sections: section one is concerned with armed contractors (providing the provision of private security with the main driver being a capability gap on the part of the military/law enforcement agencies), and section two looks at military contractors (supporting military operations right back to antiquity, less controversial politically and often technologically driven). The final Part takes into consideration emerging perspectives, exploring areas such as gender, feminist methodology, maritime security and the impact of private security on the military profession. This book will be of much interest to students of military and security studies, foreign policy and International Relations.

Author : Andreas Krieg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319333762

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Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security by Andreas Krieg Pdf

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect communities under threat. Here, Krieg explains the civil-military dynamics behind the state’s failure to effectively intervene in humanitarian crises overseas using its serviceman. The central question that follows is: would the private military contractor be a better alternative agent of the state in humanitarian intervention? This book demonstrates that given his professional identity and role towards client state and public, the contractor can be employed effectively in humanitarian intervention to generate more ethical outcomes. This volume is essential reading for researchers and post-graduate students of R2P, International Security Studies and privatization, as well as Peace and Conflict studies and International Relations more broadly.

Author : Mohammadbagher Forough
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848880351

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At War for Peace by Mohammadbagher Forough Pdf

This volume is divided into three parts, each focusing on one aspect of war and peace. The first part, War and Peace, deals with the topic in more general terms than the other two, and includes five contributions.

Author : Joseph O Chapa
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541774469

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Is Remote Warfare Moral? by Joseph O Chapa Pdf

America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post–9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead—a future of high-tech, artificial intelligence–enabled, and autonomous weapons systems that raise a host of new ethical questions. Most fundamentally, is remote warfare moral? And if so, why? Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our guide to understanding this future, able to engage in both the language of military operations and the language of moral philosophy. Through gripping accounts of remote pilots making life-and-death decisions and analysis of high-profile cases such as the killing of Iranian high government official General Qasem Soleimani, Chapa examines remote warfare within the context of the just war tradition, virtue, moral psychology, and moral responsibility. He develops the principles we should use to evaluate its morality, especially as pilots apply human judgment in morally complex combat situations. Moving on to the bigger picture, he examines how the morality of human decisions in remote war is situated within the broader moral context of US foreign policy and the future of warfare.

Author : Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317048435

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Super Soldiers by Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz Pdf

The Spartan City State produced what is probably one of the most iconic and ruthless military forces in recorded history. They believed that military training and education began at birth. Post-World War II saw a shift to army tanks, fighter jets and missiles that would go on to fight the next huge battle in Northern Europe. Today, with the advent of unmanned systems, our hopes are attached to the idea that we can fight our battles with soldiers pressing buttons in distant command centres. However, soldiers must now be highly trained, super strong and have the intelligence and mental capacity to handle the highly complex and dynamic military operating environment. It is only now as we progress into the twenty-first century that we are getting closer to realising the Spartan ideal and creating a soldier that can endure more than ever before. This book provides the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, legal and social questions concerning military human enhancement, with a view toward developing guidance and policy that may influence real-world decision making.

Author : United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : International law
ISBN : MINN:31951D031608901

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Bibliographie Mensuelle by United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081753760

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All the Year Round by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Richard Moody Swain,Albert C. Pierce
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0160937582

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The Armed Forces Officer by Richard Moody Swain,Albert C. Pierce Pdf

In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.

Author : Igor Primoratz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351917568

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Military Ethics by Igor Primoratz Pdf

Recent developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book offers a selection of the best scholarly articles on military ethics published in recent decades. It gives a hearing to all the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism. Part I includes essays on justice of war (jus ad bellum), focussing on defence against aggression and humanitarian armed intervention, but also addressing topics such as conscientious objection and the relation of patriotism to war. Articles in Part II deal with the central problems of justice in war (jus in bello): civilian immunity and 'collateral damage' to civilian life and property. Essays in Part III look into the moral issues facing the military as a profession, such as the civil - military relations, the responsibilities of officers to their soldiers and to their military superiors, and the status and responsibilities of prisoners of war.

Author : Bernd Horn,Robert W. Walker
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781770702981

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The Military Leadership Handbook by Bernd Horn,Robert W. Walker Pdf

In the simplest of terms, leadership is about influencing people to achieve an objective that is important to the leader, the group, and the organization. It is the human element – leading, motivating, and inspiring, particularly during times of crisis, chaos, and complexity when directives, policy statements, and communiques have little effect on cold, exhausted, and stressed followers. Strong leadership encourages subordinates to go beyond the obligation to obey and commit to the mission in a way that maximizes their potential. The Military Leadership Handbook is a concise and complete manual that identifies, describes, and explains all those concepts, components, and ideas that deal with, or directly relate to, military leadership. The book is a comprehensive compendium that focuses on, among other subjects, cohesion, command, cultural intelligence, discipline, fear, and trust. this applied manual provides invaluable assistance to anyone who wishes to acquire a better understanding of both the theory and application of military leadership

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11360706

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf