1st Edition

Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

By Jean-François Caron Copyright 2020
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in which wars ought to be fought. The growing use of drones, capacity-increasing technologies, and... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Nature of Current Military Technological Innovations

Capacity-Increasing Technologies

Semi-Autonomous and Autonomous Technologies

Cyberwarfare

Chapter 2: Technologies and the Military’s Duty of Care

The Military as a Profession

The Military Profession and the Duty of Care

Military Technologies and the Duty of Care

Chapter 3: The Use of Military Technologies as a Way to Increase Morality

The USS Vincennes and the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655

The 1994 Black Hawk Shootdown Incident in Northern Iraq

The My Lai and Haditha Massacres

Military Technologies and the Control of Human Emotions

Chapter 4: Military Technologies, Respect for the Rules of Warfare, and Legal Accountability

The Question of Misused Technologies

Technologies and Individual Responsibilities

How Technologies Involving Human Beings Ought to be Tested

Chapter 5: The Morality of Killing

The Ethics of Killing in War

Contemporary Military Technologies and the Ethics of Killing in War: An Assessment

Chapter 6: Technologies and the Enhanced Risk of Warfare

The Correlation Between Military Power and the Risk of War

Military Technologies and the Prospect of Jus ad Vim

Conclusion

Biography

Jean-François Caron is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, where he teaches Political Theory. He is also a teaching and a research fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Administration at the University of Opole, Poland.