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Ground Truth

The Moral Component in Contemporary British Warfare
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
224 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerschienen am11.07.2024
After twenty years of almost unbroken wars of choice, the ethical deficiencies in the operational conduct of war by Western armed forces have largely been ignored by scholarly critique. This volume addresses these deficiencies, featuring analysis by some of the UK´s leading academics and military veterans working in the fields of military ethics and contemporary conflict.Compiled in honour of Colonel David Benest OBE, a soldier-scholar who believed that ethics should be central to an effective military education, the book focuses on problems ranging from the practicalities of how to conduct a counterinsurgency campaign in one of the most challenging combat zones in the world to the failure to account properly for defeat during military conflicts. This important volume explores critical questions perennially raised about the role of the military in a democratic society and the extent to which its ideals are compromised in fighting wars of choice.mehr
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KlappentextAfter twenty years of almost unbroken wars of choice, the ethical deficiencies in the operational conduct of war by Western armed forces have largely been ignored by scholarly critique. This volume addresses these deficiencies, featuring analysis by some of the UK´s leading academics and military veterans working in the fields of military ethics and contemporary conflict.Compiled in honour of Colonel David Benest OBE, a soldier-scholar who believed that ethics should be central to an effective military education, the book focuses on problems ranging from the practicalities of how to conduct a counterinsurgency campaign in one of the most challenging combat zones in the world to the failure to account properly for defeat during military conflicts. This important volume explores critical questions perennially raised about the role of the military in a democratic society and the extent to which its ideals are compromised in fighting wars of choice.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-350-33551-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum11.07.2024
Seiten224 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.60431426

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword - Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman Introduction - Frank LedwidgePart One: David Benest´s legacy Chapter 1: Not the British way of doing business´: Atrocities in military operations and how to avoid them - Aaron Edwards Chapter 2: The military virtues: David Benest and David Fisher on when soldiers turn bad - Simon Anglim Chapter 3: Legal accountability at the tactical level and the Overseas Operations Act - Nicholas MercerPart Two: Legal and moral accountabilityChapter 4: The Iraq war crimes allegations and the investigative conundrum - Andrew Williams Chapter 5: From forgetting to institutional failure: The army as a non-learning organization - Matthew FordChapter 6: Accountability, responsibility and culpability: Are British senior officers truly professional´? - Frank LedwidgePart Three: Combat realitiesChapter 7: The operational design for Nad-e-Ali South, Afghanistan, 2011 - Oliver LeeChapter 8: Killing over winning: How fluid ethics turned success into failure for Britain´s special forces - Chris GreenChapter 9: Must liberal democracies compromise their values in order to defeat insurgencies? - Louise JonesPart Four: Myths, stories and memoryChapter 10: The lonely death of Highlander Scott McLaren - Edward BurkeChapter 11: Military myths - John WilsonChapter 12: Remembering the British soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan - Helen ParrBibliographyAuthors´ biographiesIndexmehr

Autor

Frank Ledwidge is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Law at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Losing Small Wars (2011), which was selected as a 'Book of the Year' by The Times. Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. He is the author of numerous books including Strategy in War and Peace: A Critical Introduction (2017) and War: A Beginner's Guide (2016).Helen Parr is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Keele, UK. She is the author of Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper (2018) which won the Templer Medal Book Prize, the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, the Longman-History Today Book Prize and was Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.