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  • Outsourcing Duty

    The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier

    by Michael Robillard, Bradley Strawser ...
    Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser, who have both served in the military, examine the question of whether ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bounds of Defense

    Killing, Moral Responsibility, and War

    by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that war, while awful, can be justified. Bradley Jay Strawser examines a set of related moral issues in war: when it is permissible to kill in defense of others; what moral responsibility would be required to be liable for such defensive killing; how that ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    Outsourcing Duty

    The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier

    by Michael J. Robillard, Bradley J. Strawser ...
    Narrated by Rudy Sanda ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Assessing War

    The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

    by Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier0, Edward G. Lengel1, Brooks D. Simpson2, Col. Michael Richardson3, Brian McAllister Linn4, D. Scott Stephenson5, Gehrard Weinberg6, Conrad C. Crane7, Gregory Daddis8, William C. Hix9, Kalev I. Sepp0, Alejandro S. Hernandez1, Julian Ouellet2, Christopher J. Nannini3, Mark Stout4, Bradley J. Strawser5, Russell Muirhead6, Dorothy Denning7, Robert Reilly8, Aric P. Shafran9, Anthony H. Cordesman0 ...
    Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Cyber Conflict

    Fourteen Analogies

    by Ariel E. Levite, George Perkovich, James M. Acton, John Arquilla, Stephen Blank, Dorothy Denning, Bradley J. Strawser, Florian Egloff, Peter D. Feaver0, Kenneth Geers1, Francis J. Gavin2, Emily Goldman3, Michael Warner4, Nicholas Lambert5, Steven E. Miller6, David E. Sanger7, Robert Schmidle Jr.8, Michael Sulmeyer9, Ben Buchanan0 ...
    Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Binary Bullets

    The Ethics of Cyberwarfare

    Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Adam Henschke, Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive act in the cyber-realm constitute an act of war? If so, what rules should govern such warfare? Are ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Who Should Die?

    The Ethics of Killing in War

    Edited by Ryan Jenkins, Michael Robillard, Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    War remains a grim fixture of the human landscape, and because of its tremendous and ongoing impact on the lives of millions of people, has always attracted the attention of careful, rigorous, and empathetic moral philosophers. And while war is synonymous with death and ruin, very few people are willing to surrender to moral nihilism about war--the view that all really is fair. At the center of ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies

    Edited by Timothy J. Demy, George R. Lucas Jr., Bradley J. Strawser ...
    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 ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Anthropologists in Arms

    The Ethics of Military Anthropology

    by George R. Lucas Jr. ...
    Series series Claremont Institute Series on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

    by W. Bradley Wendel ...
    Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Weighing Lives in War

    Edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May, Claire Finkelstein ...
    Series series Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law
    The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war. The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in three major categories. In so doing, the contributions will look for new and innovative approaches to understanding the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD