Beschreibung
Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel. It provides a robust and practical approach to analyzing ethical issues in war and intelligence operations, and applies careful reasoning to issues of vital importance today, not only for soldiers, intelligence professionals, and policy makers, but also for the citizens they serve and protect.
This new edition has been updated throughout and includes new contents, to deal with critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia on the battlefield as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings as a means to fight insurgencies.
Partly Cloudy provides an excellent introduction to the field for students, instructors, and practitioners who are interested in the ethical challenges faced by public servants.
Autorenportrait
David L. Perry taught ethics for 24 years at several institutions of higher education, including the U.S. Army War College, Davidson and Dickinson colleges, and Seattle and Santa Clara universities. He now lives on Bainbridge Island near Seattle.
Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 2: Comparative Religious Perspectives on War
Chapter 3: Just and Unjust War in Shakespeare's Henry V
Chapter 4: Anticipating and Preventing Atrocities in War
Chapter 5: Battlefield Euthanasia: Should Military Mercy-Killings Be Allowed?
Chapter 6: Secret Intelligence and American Democracy
Chapter 7: The KGB: CIAs Traditional Adversary
Chapter 8: Espionage
Chapter 9: Covert Action
Chapter 10: Targeted Killing
Chapter 11: Interrogation
Epilogue: On Peacemaking
About the Author
Index
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