Monographie

Moral responsibility & military effectiveness / Herman Amersfoort, René Moelker, Joseph Soeters,... [et al.] (eds.)

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Moral responsibility & military effectiveness / Herman Amersfoort, René Moelker, Joseph Soeters,... [et al.] (eds.)
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Publication
  • The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press
Date de copyright
  • C 2013
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (VIII-303 pages) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • NL ARMS, Netherlands annual review of military studies 1387-8050 2013
ISBN
  • 978-90-6704-345-8
  • 90-6704-345-1
EAN
  • 9789067043458 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • NL ARMS (Print) 1387-8050 2013
Autre variante du titre
  • [Moral responsibility and military effectiveness.]
  • [Ministerie van Defensie.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 174.935 5
Note sur la responsabilité
  • Autre contributeur : "Désirée Verweij" (co-éditeur)
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie en fin de chapitres.
Résumé ou extrait
  • "The missions of armed forces are required to be effective. Thus missions are oriented to objectives that help prevent, contain or solve problems. A soldier, for example, who skillfully neutralizes his or her target is not effective when the problem is not prevented, contained or solved. Political, legal and moral awareness is important to the soldier, because doing things right is not the same as doing right or rightful things. The soldier wishes to avoid unlawful orders, but also tries to avoid casualties among non-combatants. Normally responsibility lies with higher authorities, but the fact remains that the soldier is the one who pulls the trigger. It is not simply a matter of veering between two evils, because a mission that is without moral grounds should not have been initiated in the first place and when pursued against better knowing it will probably lose effectiveness in the end. It is impossible to make compromises here. But it is also not possible to foresee all the consequences of military action, and unanticipated consequences can easily backfire. Dilemmas are bound to occur when the soldier is caught up in blurred conflict situations. This volume tries to add to our understanding of the problem of creating and maintaining a balance between effectiveness and moral responsibility."
Sujet - Nom commun
Lien copié.
Build V.5.2.2 - 2ecb916194 (29/04/2026 07:35:08)