Military

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: Melkevik, Bjarne
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
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: Verweij, D
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: On what precondition can obedience be called a virtue? The author tries to answer this question by discussing Hannah Arendt's analysis of the Eichmann case, as an example of the dark side which obedience can have. Secondly, he focus...
Year: 2002

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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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Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Robert Ladenson ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Leever, Martin ; Anestidou, Lida
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The International Criminal Court was created to take appropriate action in the even that authorities within a nation fail to prosecute series crimes against humanity, such as atrocities during war, genocide, and other violations of ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/U.S.%20I%20mmunity%20from%20the%20International%20Criminal%20Court.pdf

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1993, a law was passed by Congress, that while homosexuals were ineligible to serve in the armed forces, in practice, recruiters were instructed not to ask about sexuality, and recruits were instructed not to reveal their sexual ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell.pdf

Authors: Trotter, Griffin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on open-air experiments of biowarfare agents. Safeguard of individual rights against tyrannies; General interests of utility-minded majority; Pluralism and common good....
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/08989620300506

Authors: Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University ; Dunning, Rebecca
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case uses two widely publicized events in the Iraq war involving the private security company Blackwater USA to consider how private military contractors have influenced and have been influenced by changes in the organization a...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/Blackwater.pdf

Authors: Ogden, Joslyn ; Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Discusses the organizational culture and internal operations of the U.S. Navy as an institution in light of the sexual harassment scandal that followed the 1991 annual meeting of the Tailhook Association....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/Tailhook&USNavy.pdf

Authors: Embrey, Ellen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on the use of investigational drugs by the military. Military medical goal; Guidelines for research....
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/08989620300509

Authors: Cummings, Mary L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on ethical issues surrounding the military's requests for informed consent waivers when using investigational drugs in the U.S. Debates concerning the anthrax vaccine; Investigations regarding the military's management of th...
Year: 2002
DOI: 10.1080/08989620212967

Authors: Donez, Francisco Juan ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Military Projects in the Workplaces
Abstract: This scenario, by Francisco Juan Donez, depicts a worker of a commercial company who is asked to help design a component for a deadly military weapon. The worker is personally uncomfortable with the societal implications of designin...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Topics/LegalIssues/LegalEssays/milintro/milproj.aspx

Authors: Potthast, Adam ; Miller, Richard ; Price, Connie ; Matalski, Mark ; England, Renee ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Carr, Edward ; Elliott, Deni ; Dillard, Brenda ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Dodds, Rhiannon
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: One of the reasons that Iraqi translators still work for the U.S. despite threats on their lives and those of their families is offers of political asylum. However, recently individuals who have worked with the U.S. as translators h...
Year: 2007
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Iraqi%20Translators.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the the military invasion of Panama by the U.S. troops in 1989, women military personnel performed flawlessly in action. According to a Pentagon report, 600 of the 26,000 U.S. troops who took part in the invasion were women, and ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Women%20in%20Combat.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1944 it became known to the Free French Partisan fighting forces that the Germans had executed 80 partisans and planned soon to execute more. The Partisans thus decided they would shoot 80 Germans prisoners who had recently surre...
Year: 1998
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Hostages.pdf