Morality & contemporary warfare

Alternate Titles

• Morality and contemporary warfare.

Description

"When is the use of military force by a nation morally justified? Why has the long accepted moral requirement to protect civilians from intentional attack eroded in recent years? How can the tendency toward unrestrained warfare between parties with major cultural differences be controlled? In this book, James Turner Johnson refocuses the moral analysis of war on the real problems of today's armed conflicts. Moral debates about nuclear war and annihilation fail to address the problems of actual contemporary uses of military force, Johnson argues. We must address the type of armed conflict that has emerged at the end of the twentieth century: local wars - often inflamed by historical, ethnic, or religious animosities and usually fought with conventional weapons that can be carried by individual fighters."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The nature of war changes continually, and the moral questions posed by one form of war often turn out to be less pressing in another, which in turn introduces its own particular quandaries.

Excerpt

The nature of war changes continually, and the moral questions posed by one form of war often turn out to be less pressing in another, which in turn introduces its own particular quandaries.

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Other Editions

• Morality & contemporary warfareYale University Press1999-01-01
• Morality and Contemporary WarfareYale University Press1999-01-01
• Morality and Contemporary WarfareHardcoverYale University Press1999-09-10
• Morality and Contemporary WarfarePaperbackYale University Press2001-09-01