In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made
possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal
practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not
only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted
explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of warfare quickly became
the norm.
In "Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare, " Nachman
Ben-Yehuda recounts the evolution of submarine warfare, explains
the nature of its deviance, documents its atrocities, and places
these developments in the context of changing national identities
and definitions of the ethical, at both social and individual
levels. Introducing the concept of cultural cores, he traces the
changes in cultural myths, collective memory, and the understanding
of unconventionality and deviance prior to the outbreak of World
War I. Significant changes in cultural cores, Ben-Yehuda concludes,
permitted the rise of wartime atrocities at sea.
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