| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict -- Friends, foes, or brothers in arms? the puzzle of combatant equality -- Combatants in asymmetric war -- Shooting to kill : the paradox of prohibited weapons -- Shooting to stun : the paradox of nonlethal warfare -- Murder, self-defense, or execution? the dilemma of assassination -- Human dignity or human life : the dilemmas of torture and rendition -- Noncombatants in asymmetric war -- Blackmailing the innocent : the dilemma of noncombatant immunity -- Killing the innocent : the dilemma of terrorism -- Risking our lives to save others : puzzles of humanitarian intervention -- Conclusion and afterword -- Torture, assassination, and blackmail : new norms for asymmetric conflict? -- The war in Gaza, December 2008 to January 2009. |
| Summary |
Describes the impact of asymmetric conflicts on the practices of war, discussing torture, assassination, blackmail, extortion, chemical weapons, and related tactics, and offers advice on ways to respond to the changing demands of asymmetric conflict. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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United States. |
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Military ethics -- United States.
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Military ethics. |
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Military interrogation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Military interrogation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Torture, assassination, and blackmail in an age of asymmetric conflict |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gross, Michael L., 1954- Moral dilemmas of modern war. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521866156 (DLC) 2009008941 (OCoLC)313078350 |
| ISBN |
9780511658655 (electronic book) |
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0511658656 (electronic book) |
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0521866154 (hardback) |
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9780521866156 (hardback) |
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0521685109 (paperback) |
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9780521685108 (paperback) |
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9780511811562 (electronic book) |
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051181156X (electronic book) |
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9780521866156 (hardback) |
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9780521685108 (paperback) |
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