Military Ethics

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are an engineer working for a company that is the sole supplier of a chip component that is crucial to the operation of a lethal defensive military weapon. Such ethical issues are raised as the nature of the product and its vari...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/profpractice/ppcases/numericalprob/weapons.aspx

Authors: Ong, Bruce ; Nuñez, Lara ; Sharkey, Christine D. ; Jefferson, Thomas ; Thompson, Jennifer C. ; Kemp, Kenneth R. ; Jeffries, Joseph
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Military Medicine
Abstract: This article describes an ethics ethics course for new Army physician trainees, that combines tha didactic component and case analysis through small-group discussions, and emphasizes providing tools to analyze ethical dilemmas both...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19160614

Authors: Haws, David R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses a university course developed by the author looking at engineering ethics and the ethics of warfare. The course, The Moral Dimensions of Technology, meets accreditation requirements in engineering ethics, and...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-006-0035-6

Authors: Cook, Martin L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Military Ethics
Abstract: The author describes a method for teaching Thucydides to military officers in the context of professional military education which integrates military ethics. ...
Year: 2006

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Authors: Richardson, Jacques G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Weapons of both defense and offense have grown steadily in their effectiveness--especially since the industrial revolution. The mass destruction of humanity, by parts or in whole, became reality with the advent of toxic agents found...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-004-0046-0

Authors: Miller, J. Joseph
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Military Ethics
Abstract: The author discusses the importance that Socratic dialogue between instructors and students be used in the teaching of ethics to future soldiers. He looks how the Socratic method often clashes with the practice of military instituti...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1080/15027570410006219

Authors: Kemper, Bart
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: With the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction being manufactured from benign objects, the author of this article calls for additions to be made to existing codes and standards to make clear what objects are designed and not ...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-004-0026-4

Authors: Fotheringham, Heather
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: After giving a description of a British company who manufactures personal armor for soldiers and vechiles and lightweight radar systems used to spot soldiers on the battlefield, students are asked a series of questions about their w...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/scholarart/ethics/abcdefence.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As the military moves forward on the development of machines that could be used to kill enemy combatants, many are worried that these machines could be captured and turned into devices of terrorism. In this scenario, a machine is de...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Killer%20Robots

Authors: Moore, Kelly
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book traces the history of scientists becoming involved in forming protest organizations after WWII to help democratize sciences and make its pursuit more transparent. The author discusses how scientists weakened their own aut...
Year: 2008

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Authors: Davis, Jay ; Prosnitz, Don
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: Focuses on the role of physicists in counterterrorism. Emphasis on suicide bombings; Cycle of steps by terrorists in order to carry out a successful attack; Qualifications of physicists. INSETS: Attribute Measurement Technologies;Se...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1063/1.1580048

Authors: Jeanloz, Raymond
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: Deals with the science-based stockpile stewardship program of the United States Department of Energy to maintain its nuclear deterrent in the era of no underground testing. Essential parts of the program; Purpose of underground test...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Van Lersel, Fred
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In this article the author looks circumstances where military obedience can become a moral issue, especially within professional armed forces, and what methods are available to prepare military personnel for this moral issue. The au...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Leclercq, Jean-Marie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2002

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Authors: Joseph, Keith
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: This article, written by a an officer in the Australian Army Reserve, seeks to examine some of the issues that arise in military ethics, and to consider a framework within which they might be considered. ...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Kasher, Asa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2002

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Authors: Kashnikov, Boris
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2002

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Authors: Hartle, Anthony E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Under international law today, individual soldiers in every nation are responsible for their actions when they obey illegal orders (those that direct war crimes) and violate the laws of war. Thus soldiers cannot avoid making legal a...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Ikpe, Ibanga B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: I shall argue that coups and countercoups present the professional soldier with dilemmas for which his training and socialization can never prepare him. This is because reaction to a coup is not a purely military decision, rather it...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Fotion, Nick
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2002

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Authors: Coppieters, Bruno
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The relationship between war and ethics can be assessed from various perspectives. Militarism, pacifism, realism and just war theory represent the major views on the ethical nature of war and political order. In this paper, each of ...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Ceulemans, Carl ; Van Damme, Guy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In order for military forces to be an effective instrument of state policy, the military professional has to be loyal and obedient. Although Huntington considers obedience as the supreme military virtue, he is also well aware that t...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Apressyan, Ruben
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In this paper I assume that from the normative-ethical point of view, the concept of military obedience may have different foundations. Various concepts of military obedience have different ethical content. Militarism and pacifism a...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Sawyer, Robert J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The author reflects on roboethics. According to the author, roboethics is a human-centered ethics that requires human beings to consider how to govern the behavior and freedom of robots as they are made more intelligent and autonomo...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151606

Authors: Allen, Colin ; Wallach, Wendell
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: As computers and technology play a larger and larger role in the smooth functioning of our society, the authors of this volume argue that robots must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a f...
Year: 2009

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