The Ashgate Research Companion to Military EthicsDr James Turner Johnson, Dr Eric D Patterson This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs, and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators. |
Contents
Introduction to Part I | 9 |
The Decision to Use Military Force in Recent Moral Argument | 25 |
The Role of the Military in the Decision to Use Armed Force | 49 |
The Response to Asymmetric Warfare and Terrorism | 73 |
The Question of Using military Force in | 89 |
Introduction to Part II | 115 |
The Kantian perspective | 131 |
International Humanitarian Law | 153 |
Cyber Warfare | 245 |
The Moral Equality of Combatants | 259 |
If the Cause is Just is Anything Allowed? | 283 |
Enforcing and Strengthening Noncombatant Immunity | 307 |
Understanding Proportionality in Contemporary Armed Conflict | 319 |
The ethics of Who is in charge | 335 |
How Should This Conflict End? Implications of the End of | 349 |
Fostering Reconciliation as a Goal of Military Ethics | 371 |
The Challenges Posed by LocalGlobal Terrorism | 171 |
Terrorism and Ethics | 189 |
The Ethics of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | 213 |
Targeted Killing | 227 |
Introduction to Part IV | 385 |
Chinese Traditions on Military Ethics | 399 |
The Indian Tradition | 415 |
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