Privatizing War
Author | : William Feldman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317620852 |
This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war. It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors might wage as functionaries of the state. The first type of war serves to probe the ad bellum question of whether private actors can justifiably authorize war, while the second type of war serves to probe the in bello question of whether private actors can justifiably participate in war. The cases that drive the analysis are drawn from the rich and complicated history of private military action, stretching back centuries to the Italian city-states whose mercenaries were reviled by Machiavelli. The book also takes up the hypothetical examples conjured by philosophers—the private protective agencies of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, for example, and the private armies of Thomas More’s Utopia. The aim of this book is to propose a theory of privatization that retains currency not only in assessing current military engagements, but past and future ones as well. In doing so, it also raises a set of important questions about the very enterprise of war. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics, political philosophy, military studies, international relations, war and conflict studies, and security studies.
Bill Lambert
Author | : Samuel J. Wilson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2016-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147662612X |
World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in August, he had 22 victories--then the most achieved by any American pilot. (By the time of the Armistice in November, his total was surpassed by Eddie Rickenbacker, the former race car driver from Columbus, Ohio, with 26 victories.) Lambert survived the war and lived into his eighties, unwilling until late in life to seek public acclaim for his war record. This book examines his life and the wartime experiences that defined it.
Quarterly Supplement to the ... Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents
Author | : United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Military research |
ISBN | : |
War Power, Police Power
Author | : Mark Neocleous |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748692398 |
In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous conducts a critical exploration of the ways in which war power and police power are intertwined in the form of state violence and exercised in social