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Just War Reconsidered - Strategy, Ethics, and Theory (Hardcover)
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Just War Reconsidered - Strategy, Ethics, and Theory (Hardcover)
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In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously
considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues
that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and
subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics
of combat to soldiers on the ground and failed to recognize the
moral responsibilities of senior political and military leaders. In
Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory, James M. Dubik
draws on years of research as well as his own experiences as a
soldier and teacher to fill the gaps left by other theorists. He
applies moral philosophy, political philosophy, and strategic
studies to historical and contemporary case studies to reveal the
inaccuracies and moral bankruptcy that inform some of the
literature on military ethics. Conventional just war theory adopts
a binary approach, wherein political leaders have moral
accountability for the decision to go to war and soldiers have
accountability for fighting the war ethically. Dubik argues,
however, that political and military leadership should be held
accountable for the planning and execution of war in addition to
the decision to initiate conflict. Dubik bases his sober
reassessment on the fundamental truth that war risks the lives of
soldiers and innocents as well as the political and social health
of communities. He offers new standards to evaluate the ethics of
warfare in the hope of increasing the probability that the lives of
soldiers will not be used in vain and the innocent not put at risk
unnecessarily.
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