This comprehensive overview examines the many facets of military ethics as they are applied during times of armed conflict and times of peace.
An Introduction to Military Ethics: A Reference Handbook presents the philosophical and conceptual foundations of military ethics, offering an excellent foundation for exploration and discussion of these issues. It focuses first on the 2,500-year legacy of the "just war theory" and its application through history. It then moves to the application of that tradition in the modern era, showing how acts of terrorism by nonstate participants require a new theory and way of thinking about when and how armed force can be justifiably employed. Further, the author analyzes how new theories might alter the fundamental identity of traditional defensive military forces.
The book also addresses peacetime ethical issues, such as gender integration and the role of religion in the military. The book is essential reading for military officers and students, as well as those policymakers who confront decisions about how to deploy military force during the War on Terror.
| ISBN: | 9780313350467 |
| Publication date: | 23rd September 2009 |
| Author: | Bill Rhodes |
| Publisher: | Praeger an imprint of ABC-CLIO |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 165 pages |
| Series: | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Theory of warfare and military science |
This comprehensive overview examines the many facets of military ethics as they are applied during times of armed conflict and times of peace.
An Introduction to Military Ethics: A Reference Handbook presents the philosophical and conceptual foundations of military ethics, offering an excellent foundation for exploration and discussion of these issues. It focuses first on the 2,500-year legacy of the "just war theory" and its application through history. It then moves to the application of that tradition in the modern era, showing how acts of terrorism by nonstate participants require a new theory and way of thinking about when and how armed force can be justifiably employed. Further, the author analyzes how new theories might alter the fundamental identity of traditional defensive military forces.
The book also addresses peacetime ethical issues, such as gender integration and the role of religion in the military. The book is essential reading for military officers and students, as well as those policymakers who confront decisions about how to deploy military force during the War on Terror.
An Introduction to Military Ethics features in the following genres: Social and political philosophy, Theory of warfare and military science
An Introduction to Military Ethics is available in Hardback
An Introduction to Military Ethics was written by Bill Rhodes and published by Praeger an imprint of ABC-CLIO
An Introduction to Military Ethics has 165 pages
Yes it is part of Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series