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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. Featuring portraits of combat veterans and leading mental health...
4) Moral dilemmas of modern war: torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
5) Accountability for killing: moral responsibility for collateral damage in America's post-9/11 wars
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Publisher
Brave New Foundation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The film investigates the impact that U.S. drone strikes have across the globe. The film reveals the realities of drone warfare, the violation of international law, the loss of life, and the far-reaching implications for the communities that live under drones.
7) The drone debate: a primer on the U.S. use of unmanned aircraft outside conventional battlefields
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Drone Debate offers a thorough investigation of the where, why, how, and when of the U.S. use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Beginning with a historical overview of the use of drones in warfare, it then addresses whether targeted killing operations are strategically wise, whether they are permissible under international law, and the related ethical issues. It also looks at the political factors behind the use of drones, including domestic and global...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Partly Cloudy : Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel. It provides a robust and practical approach to analyzing ethical issues in war and intelligence operations, and applies careful reasoning to issues of vital importance today, not only for soldiers, intelligence professionals, and policy makers, but also for the citizens...
Author
Language
English
Description
The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world--and in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. Lincoln scholar Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office, analyzing the commander in chief who coped with the profound moral dilemmas of America's bloodiest war. In this sequel to Lincoln's Virtues Miller completes his "ethical biography, " showing the inexperienced backcountry...
15) Military force
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
17) Platoon
Language
English
Description
In "Platoon, " a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Wilson recounts his career in the U.S. Foreign Service, his public challenge to President George W. Bush's claim that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sought uranium from Africa, the subsequent disclosure of the CIA undercover status of his wife, and his allegations that the Bush administration fabricated and manipulated intelligence to bolster its case for the invasion of Iraq.