Accountability for Killing : Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. THE SCOPE AND SCALE OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE -- 1. Moral Grammar and Military Vocabulary -- 2. How They Die: US Doctrine and Trends in Civilian Death -- 3. Norms in Tension: Military Necessity, Proportionality, and Double Effect -- PART II. PRIMARY MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 4. When Soldiers "Snap": Bad Apples, Mad Apples, and Individual Moral Responsibility -- 5. Command Responsibility, Due Care, and Moral Courage -- 6. Organizational Responsibility: Military Institutions as Moral Agents -- PART III. SECONDARY MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- 7. Public Conscience and Responsibility for War -- 8. Public Responsibility -- 9. Collateral Damage and Frameworks of Moral Responsibility -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A sophisticated and intellectually powerful analysis of culpability and moral responsibility in war, Accountability for Killing focuses on the causes of many episodes of foreseeable collateral damage. Why was there so much unintended killing of civilians in the U.S. wars zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan? Is 'collateral damage' simply an unavoidable consequence of all wars? Why, when the U.S. military tries so hard to limit collateral damage, does so much of it seem to occur? Trenchant, original, and ranging across security studies, international law, ethics, and international relations, Accountability for Killing will reshape our understanding of the ethics of contemporary war.

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