RT Book
T1 Asymmetric killing: risk avoidance, just war, and the warrior ethos
A1 Renic, Neil C.
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2020
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1691288853
AB This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence — warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral basis for its use? In order to answers these questions, Asymmetric Killing delves into the morally contested terrain of the warrior ethos and Just War Tradition, locating the historical and contemporary role of reciprocal risk within both. This book also engages two historical episodes of battlefield asymmetry, military sniping and manned aerial bombing. Both modes of violence generated an imbalance of risk between opponents so profound as to call into question their permissibility. These now-resolved controversies will then be contrasted with the UAV-exclusive violence of the United States, robotic killing conducted in the absence of a significant military ground presence in conflict theatres such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. As will be revealed, the radical asymmetry of this latter case is distinct, undermining reciprocal risk at the structural level of war. Beyond its more resolvable tension with the warrior ethos, UAV-exclusive violence represents a fundamental challenge to the very coherence of the moral justifications for killing in war.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-239. - Index: Seite 241-246
CN 172.42
SN 9780198851462
K1 Kriegführung
K1 Asymmetrische Kriegführung
K1 Justizmord
K1 Rechtfertigung
K1 Krieg
K1 Moral
K1 Einflussgröße
K1 Risikofaktor
K1 Militär
K1 Vergleich
K1 Kommandotruppe
K1 Luftangriff
K1 Drohne : Flugkörper
K1 Unbemanntes Flugzeug
K1 Asymmetrische Kriegführung : Völkerrecht : Kriegsverbrechen : Politische Verfolgung
K1 Asymmetrische Kriegführung : Risiko : Vermeidung : Selbstverteidigung : Völkerrecht : Gerechter Krieg