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Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates
surrounding the recent development of "military
anthropology"-particularly the practice of embedding
anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas
traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with
national military, security, and intelligence organizations and
shows how these complex and frequently misunderstood historical
concerns contribute to the contemporary moral controversy. He gives
special attention to the Human Terrain Systems project developed by
the U.S. Army under the direction of General David Petraeus.
Although this project has been criticized as unethical by academic
anthropologists in the U.S. and the U.K., Lucas shows that the
moral status of that program is much more ambiguous than these
blanket criticisms would suggest. Anthropologists in Arms concludes
with a call for a thorough review of HTS itself, and suggests
alternative strategies for providing anthropological knowledge to
military forces engaged in irregular warfare-knowledge that might,
in turn, help military forces to ameliorate the suffering imposed
on noncombatants, while respecting the privacy, security, and human
rights of indigenous populations.
Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates
surrounding the recent development of 'military
anthropology'-particularly the practice of embedding
anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas
traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with
national military, security, and intelligence organizations and
shows how these complex and frequently misunderstood historical
concerns contribute to the contemporary moral controversy. He gives
special attention to the Human Terrain Systems project developed by
the U.S. Army under the direction of General David Petraeus.
Although this project has been criticized as unethical by academic
anthropologists in the U.S. and the U.K., Lucas shows that the
moral status of that program is much more ambiguous than these
blanket criticisms would suggest. Anthropologists in Arms concludes
with a call for a thorough review of HTS itself, and suggests
alternative strategies for providing anthropological knowledge to
military forces engaged in irregular warfare-knowledge that might,
in turn, help military forces to ameliorate the suffering imposed
on noncombatants, while respecting the privacy, security, and human
rights of indigenous populations.
This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and
some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. Although the
nature and politics of war never change, the weapons and
technologies used in war do change and are always undergoing
development. Because of that, the arsenal of weapons for
twenty-first century conflict is different from previous centuries.
Weapons in today's world include an array of instruments of war
that include, robotics, cyber war capabilities, human performance
enhancement for warriors, and the proliferation of an entire
spectrum of unmanned weapons systems and platforms. Tactical
weapons now have the potential of strategic results and have
changed the understanding of the battle space creating ethical,
legal, and political issues unknown in the pre-9/11 world. What do
these technologies mean for things such as contemporary
international relations, the just-war tradition, and civil-military
relations? Directed at readers in the academic, scientific,
military, and public policy communities, this volume offers current
thought on ethics and emerging technologies from
internationally-recognized scholars addressing the full spectrum of
issues in present warfare technology. It includes current and
ongoing topics of multi-discipline and international interest, such
as ethics, law, international relations, war studies, public
policy, science and technology. This book was originally published
in various issues and volumes of the Journal of Military Ethics.
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