Ground Truth (eBook, ePUB)

The Moral Component in Contemporary British Warfare
Redaktion: Ledwidge, Frank; Edwards, Aaron; Parr, Helen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After twenty years of almost unbroken wars of choice, the ethical deficiencies in the operational conduct of war by Western armed forces have largely been ignored by scholarly critique. This volume addresses these deficiencies, featuring analysis by some of the UK's leading academics and military veterans working in the fields of military ethics and contemporary conflict.

Compiled in honour of Colonel David Benest OBE, a soldier-scholar who believed that ethics should be central to an effective military education, the book focuses on problems ranging from the practicalities of how to conduct a counterinsurgency campaign in one of the most challenging combat zones in the world to the failure to account properly for defeat during military conflicts. This important volume explores critical questions perennially raised about the role of the military in a democratic society and the extent to which its ideals are compromised in fighting wars of choice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350335530
• Artikelnr.: 70745588

Autorenporträt

Frank Ledwidge is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Law at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Losing Small Wars (2011), which was selected as a 'Book of the Year' by The Times. Aaron Edwards is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK. He is the author of numerous books including Strategy in War and Peace: A Critical Introduction (2017) and War: A Beginner's Guide (2016). Helen Parr is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Keele, UK. She is the author of Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper (2018) which won the Templer Medal Book Prize, the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, the Longman-History Today Book Prize and was Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman Introduction - Frank Ledwidge
Part One: David Benest's legacy Chapter 1: 'Not the British way of doing
business': Atrocities in military operations and how to avoid them - Aaron
Edwards Chapter 2: The military virtues: David Benest and David Fisher on
when soldiers turn bad - Simon Anglim Chapter 3: Legal accountability at
the tactical level and the Overseas Operations Act - Nicholas Mercer Part
Two: Legal and moral accountability Chapter 4: The Iraq war crimes
allegations and the investigative conundrum - Andrew Williams Chapter
5: From forgetting to institutional failure: The army as a non-learning
organization - Matthew Ford Chapter 6: Accountability, responsibility and
culpability: Are British senior officers truly 'professional'? - Frank
Ledwidge Part Three: Combat realities Chapter 7: The operational design for
Nad-e-Ali South, Afghanistan, 2011 - Oliver Lee Chapter 8: Killing over
winning: How fluid ethics turned success into failure for Britain's special
forces - Chris Green Chapter 9: Must liberal democracies compromise their
values in order to defeat insurgencies? - Louise Jones Part Four: Myths,
stories and memory Chapter 10: The lonely death of Highlander Scott McLaren
- Edward Burke Chapter 11: Military myths - John Wilson Chapter 12:
Remembering the British soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan - Helen Parr
Bibliography Authors' biographies Index