Pursuing moral warfare : ethics in American, British, and Israeli counterinsurgency / Marcus Schulzk...
Pursuing moral warfare : ethics in American, British, and Israeli counterinsurgency / Marcus Schulzk...
Pursuing moral warfare : ethics in American, British, and Israeli counterinsurgency / Marcus Schulzke.
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Publisher
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/1610
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 239 pages; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The emergence of military ethics -- Moral theory and ethics at war -- Constraints on ethical reasoning in combat -- Ethical decisions in counterinsurgency operations -- The US army and virtue ethics : embodying the warrior ethos -- The US army in Afghanistan and Iraq : warrior virtue in asymmetric w...
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Publisher
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
During combat, soldiers make critical split-second choices about matters of life and death dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. In this book, Marcus Schulzke examines the theory and practice of how military ethics can guide conduct in counterinsurgency, which are particularly difficult opera...
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Pursuing moral warfare : ethics in American, British, and Israeli counterinsurgency / Marcus Schulzke.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/1610
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74VKVBMlAwkA
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ISBN
9781626166585 paperback; alkaline paper
1626166587 paperback; alkaline paper
9781626166578 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1626166579 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
172.42
MMS ID
991024238501002626
