{"title":"War crimes and the crime of mar","authors":"N. Fotion, G. Elfstrom","doi":"10.4324/9781003100720-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100720-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75021095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues concerning military personnel","authors":"N. Fotion, G. Elfstrom","doi":"10.4324/9781003100720-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100720-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80720146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More or Less True","authors":"James L. Cook","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2021.1893460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2021.1893460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"267 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2021.1893460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44701148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum atomica","authors":"Andrew Corbett","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2021.1893461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2021.1893461","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Is it coherent to defend nuclear deterrence from an ethical and just-war point of view, given the likely devastating effects of an actual nuclear exchange? This article holds that the salutary effects of successful deterrence are so substantial that, given the state of the world today, such deterrence does abide by the proportionality criterion of the just war tradition when considered against the direct political effects of deterrence, not the military effects of detonations. This article further explores why such salutary political effects are likely to remain viable in the twenty-first century, given both technical and political developments. The article also explores some of the main arguments against nuclear deterrence derived from the Cold War and considers to what extent they are relevant today.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"331 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2021.1893461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48079494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Assessment of Student Moral Development at the National Defense University: Implications for Ethics Education and Moral Development for Senior Government and Military Leaders","authors":"R. Agrawal, K. Williams, B. J. Miller","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2021.1881217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2021.1881217","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Senior service colleges provide professional education to prepare military and government civilians for public service at the senior levels of strategy and policy. Inclusive in the program of study is ethics education, since various constituents expect their leaders to act in an ethical manner and to incorporate ethics and values in decision-making, policy, and strategy. In order to develop the most effective professional ethics education, the National Defense University assessed students in a pre- and post-test format using the Defining Issues Test Version 2 to determine their patterns of moral judgment at the beginning and the conclusion of the program. This article discusses the theoretical background, existing research, results, and implications of the study. Key findings include military students aligning with the Maintaining Norms schema; civilian students aligning with the Postconventional schema; and no significant changes as a result of the program. The article concludes with recommendations for ethics education for military and public service professionals. This research helps fill a void of empirical data on the moral development of military and public servants.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"312 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2021.1881217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47266531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Would Armed Humanitarian Intervention Have Been Justified to Protect the Rohingyas?","authors":"Benjamin D. King","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2020.1866121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1866121","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The mass killings, large-scale gang rape and large-scale expulsion of the Rohingyas from Myanmar constitute one of the most repugnant world events in recent years. This article addresses the question of whether armed humanitarian intervention would have been morally permissible to protect the Rohingyas. It approaches the question from the perspective of the jus ad bellum criteria of just war theory. This approach does not yield a definitive answer because knowing whether certain jus ad bellum conditions might have been satisfied is difficult to judge without detailed knowledge of military intelligence assessments. Nevertheless, I argue that there was just cause for intervention according to both liberal and communitarian perspectives; that legitimate authority in the form of United Nations Security Council authorization would not have been morally necessary; that it is doubtful whether permissible intervention would have required humanitarian intent; that in late August 2017, intervention might well have been a last resort, but that morally relevant facts suggest intervention might have been disproportionate and lacked a reasonable chance of success, such that, all things considered, it would have perhaps been impermissible.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"269 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2020.1866121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46598608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risky Business: A Model of Sufficient Risk for Anticipatory Self-Defence","authors":"J. Nabulsi","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2021.1888503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2021.1888503","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on the historical insight of Emer de Vattel to build on the contemporary arguments of Michael Walzer and David Luban, this article develops a model of sufficient risk as a necessary condition for anticipatory war to be deemed self-defence. This model holds that an anticipatory war may constitute legitimate self-defence (as opposed to aggression) when it aims to forestall a threat that poses a sufficient risk to the anticipating state. This is the point where a threat is both sufficiently likely to materialise and sufficiently large to pose a grave risk. Due to crucial problems with the imminence condition for self-defence, I propose that the sufficient risk condition subsume that of imminence. The power of this model lies in its ability to encapsulate all factors raised by previous authors that are morally relevant specifically for anticipatory wars and categorise them as contributing to the judgement of the likelihood of the threat materialising and/or the magnitude of the potential threat. This parsimonious categorisation increases the accuracy and clarity of the moral theory on anticipatory war, making it more robust to change in the types of threats faced by states, and less ripe for manipulation to justify immoral wars.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"292 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2021.1888503","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49392264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century: Moving Beyond Clausewitz, by George Lucas","authors":"E. Erwin","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2021.1876292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2021.1876292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"348 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2021.1876292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42290768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punishing Robots – Way Out of Sparrow’s Responsibility Attribution Problem","authors":"M. Zając","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2020.1865455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1865455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Laws of Armed Conflict require that war crimes be attributed to individuals who can be held responsible and be punished. Yet assigning responsibility for the actions of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) is problematic. Robert Sparrow argues that if specific agents cannot be fairly and reasonably held responsible for war crimes committed by such systems, then LAWS lack legal and moral legitimacy. He further argues that neither the programmers and engineers creating truly autonomous systems, nor their commanders, nor the machines themselves can be held responsible for the actions of LAWS. This would be unfair in the case of the humans and impossible in the case of the machines, which cannot be punished as they lack the capacity for phenomenal experience. I challenge the latter claim by showing that all the morally desirable goals that punishment aims for in humans – incapacitation, rehabilitation and deterrence – can be effected in robots by alternative but more reliable means. My account focuses on describing how the behaviors enforced by deterrence in humans may be achieved via a mixture of prevention and threat of goal frustration, even if the retributive aspect of punishment cannot be replicated in the case of LAWS.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"285 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2020.1865455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46195569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Veterans","authors":"John Riley, M. Gambone","doi":"10.1080/15027570.2020.1832033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1832033","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A soldier who suffers a debilitating casualty on the battlefield is a wounded warrior. Awaiting that individual is a complex safety net, composed of public and private assistance. Should this same sense of obligation exist for private contractors working on a battlefield? The seemingly obvious answer is no. Contractors are temporary employees who profit from war. The purpose of this article is to challenge the assumptions that implicitly inform this issue and ultimately lead to a series of false choices. The type of service and the conditions in which it is rendered should govern the degree of public obligation. Putting on a uniform may matter more because of the greater underlying obligation that person is willing to make, but donning the uniform is not the sole trigger for societal obligation. Western nations have a level of unmet obligation to the contractors who have provided services on their battlefields.","PeriodicalId":39180,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Military Ethics","volume":"19 1","pages":"201 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15027570.2020.1832033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42209928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}