War, morality, and the military profession / edited by Malham M. Wakin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wakin, Malham M.

John Penman Wood Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military ethics.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

Armed Forces.

Physical Description:

xiii, 521 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition, revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1986.

Contents:

Ethics and the military profession. Introduction / Malham M. Wakin

The world of Epictetus : reflections on survival and leadership / James Bond Stockdale

Officership as a profession / Samuel P. Huntington

The military mind : conservative realism of the professional military ethic / Samuel P. Huntington

The future of the military profession / Morris Janowitz

Society and the soldier : 1914-18 / Sir John Winthrop Hackett

Today and tomorrow / Sir John Winthrop Hackett

The military in the service of the state / Sir John Winthrop Hackett

The professions under siege / Jacques Barzun

The shame of the professions / Max Lerner

Duty, honor, country : practice and percept / Lewis S. Sorley III

Conflicting loyalties and the American military ethic / Philip M. Flammer

Loyalty, honor, and the modern military / Michael O. Wheeler

Integrity / John D. Ryan

The ethics of leadership I / Malham M. Wakin

The ethics of leadership II / Malham M. Wakin.

War and Morality. Introduction / Malham M. Wakin

Just and unjust wars / Telford Taylor

The just war and non-violence positions / U.S. Catholic Bishops

Just-war theories : the bases, interrelations, priorities, and functions of their criteria / James F. Childress

Pacifism : some philosophical considerations / Stanley Hauerwas

War and murder / Elizabeth Anscombe

War and massacre / Thomas Nagel

On the morality of war : a preliminary inquiry / Richard Wasserstrom

The killing of the innocent / Jeffrie G. Murphy

War crimes / Telford Taylor

Superior orders and reprisals / Telford Taylor

The laws of war / Richard Wasserstrom

On the morality of chemical/biological war / Richard J. Krickus

Supreme emergencey / Michael Walzer

Some paradoxes of deterrence / Gregory S. Kavka

On nuclear war and nuclear deterrence / U.S. Catholic Bishops

Moral Clarity in the nuclear age / Michael Novak

On nuclear morality / Charles Krauthammer

The moral case for the Strategic Defense Initiative / Kenneth W. Kemp.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: War, morality, and the military profession.

ISBN:

0813303605

9780813303604

0813303591

9780813303598

OCLC:

13096282