The American Way of Bombing : Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, from Flying Fortresses to Drones / Henry Shue, Matthew Evangelista.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evangelista, Matthew, editor.

Shue, Henry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft--Government policy--United States.

Drone aircraft.

Bombing, Aerial--Moral and ethical aspects.

Bombing, Aerial.

Bombing, Aerial--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous efforts to avoid "collateral damage" in the counterinsurgency and antiterrorist wars of today. The American Way of Bombing brings together prominent military historians, practitioners, civilian and military legal experts, political scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to explore the evolution of ethical and legal norms governing air warfare.Focusing primarily on the United States-as the world's preeminent military power and the one most frequently engaged in air warfare, its practice has influenced normative change in this domain, and will continue to do so-the authors address such topics as firebombing of cities during World War II; the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the deployment of airpower in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya; and the use of unmanned drones for surveillance and attacks on suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and elsewhere.Contributors: Tami Davis Biddle, U.S. Army War College; Sahr Conway-Lanz, Yale University Library; Neta C. Crawford, Boston University; Janina Dill, University of Oxford; Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Duke University; Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University; Charles Garraway, University of Essex; Hugh Gusterson, George Mason University; Richard W. Miller, Cornell University; Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame; Margarita H. Petrova, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals; Klem Ryan, United Nations, South Sudan; Henry Shue, University of Oxford

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The American Way of Bombing

Part I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1. Strategic Bombardment / Biddle, Tami Davis

Chapter 2. Bombing Civilians after World War II / Conway-Lanz, Sahr

Chapter 3. Targeting Civilians and U.S. Strategic Bombing / Crawford, Neta C.

Chapter 4. The Law Applies, But Which Law? / Garraway, Charles

Part II. Interpreting, Criticizing, and Creating Legal Restrictions

Chapter 5. Clever or Clueless? / Dunlap, Charles J. Jr.

Chapter 6. The American Way of Bombing and International Law / Dill, Janina

Chapter 7. Force Protection, Military Advantage, and "Constant Care" for Civilians / Shue, Henry

Chapter 8. Civilian Deaths and American Power / Miller, Richard W.

Part III. Constructing New Norms

Chapter 9. Proportionality and Restraint on the Use of Force / Petrova, Margarita H.

Chapter 10. Toward an Anthropology of Drones / Gusterson, Hugh

Chapter 11. What's Wrong with Drones? / Ryan, Klem

Chapter 12. Banning Autonomous Killing / O'Connell, Mary Ellen

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

"The papers commissioned for this project were first intensively discussed at a workshop at Cornell University in April 2011"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-299) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780801454561

0801454565

9781322503516

1322503516

9780801454578

0801454573

OCLC:

886740403