War, morality, and the military profession / edited by Malham M. Wakin.

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Wakin, Malham M

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TextPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1986.Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and updatedDescription: xiii, 521 p ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0813303605

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: War, morality, and the military profession.DDC classification:

306/.27 19

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U22 .W13

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Contents:

Part 1, Ethics and the military profession: Introduction / Malham M. Wakin -- The world of Epictetus : reflections on survival and leadership / James Bond Stockdale -- Officership as a profession / Samuel P. Huntington -- The military mind : conservative realism of the professional military ethic / Samuel P. Huntington -- The future of the military profession / Morris Janowitz -- Society and the soldier : 1914-18 / Sir John Winthrop Hackett -- Today and tomorrow / Sir John Winthrop Hackett -- The military in the service of the state / Sir John Winthrop Hackett -- The professions under siege / Jacques Barzun -- The shame of the professions / Max Lerner -- Duty, honor, country : practice and percept / Lewis S. Sorley III -- Conflicting loyalties and the American military ethic / Philip M. Flammer -- Loyalty, honor, and the modern military / Michael O. Wheeler -- Integrity / John D. Ryan -- The ethics of leadership I / Malham M. Wakin -- The ethics of leadership II / Malham M. Wakin.

Part 2, War and Morality: Introduction / Malham M. Wakin -- Just and unjust wars / Telford Taylor -- The just war and non-violence positions / U.S. Catholic Bishops -- Just-war theories : the bases, interrelations, priorities, and functions of their criteria / James F. Childress -- Pacifism : some philosophical considerations / Stanley Hauerwas -- War and murder / Elizabeth Anscombe -- War and massacre / Thomas Nagel -- On the morality of war : a preliminary inquiry / Richard Wasserstrom -- The killing of the innocent / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- War crimes / Telford Taylor -- Superior orders and reprisals / Telford Taylor -- The laws of war / Richard Wasserstrom -- On the morality of chemical/biological war / Richard J. Krickus -- Supreme emergencey / Michael Walzer -- Some paradoxes of deterrence / Gregory S. Kavka -- On nuclear war and nuclear deterrence / U.S. Catholic Bishops -- Moral Clarity in the nuclear age / Michael Novak -- On nuclear morality / Charles Krauthammer -- The moral case for the Strategic Defense Initiative / Kenneth W. Kemp.

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