Force Short of War in Modern Conflict: Jus Ad Vim - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474444229 ISBN 13: 9781474444224

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Jai Galliott explores the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. He shows that we need to bring the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital means of conducting kinetic warfare through the force short of war paradigm.

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About the Author

Jai Galliott is Group Leader of Values in Defence & Security Technology at the Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales; Non-Residential Fellow at the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy, West Point and Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. He is a defence analyst and expert on the ethical, legal and strategic issues associated with the employment of emerging technologies, including cyber systems, autonomous vehicles and soldier augmentation. His publications include: Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection (Routledge 2016); Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape (Ashgate 2015); Super Soldiers: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (Ashgate 2015); and Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and Governance (Ashgate 2015).

From the Back Cover

Explores a theory for bringing the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital and limited means of warfare Emerging technologies such as drones, autonomous robotics and cyber systems have allowed force short of war to become commonplace. The ethical and legal issues associated with the use of these technologies are frequently the focus of debate, but their broader consequence - the rapidly expanding and rule-challenging use of force short of war - has been overlooked. This book explores rather than ignores this overarching phenomenon and investigates innovative methods for aligning modern conflict with contemporary ethical and legal expectations. It opens new avenues for thinking about the ethics of robotic, cyber and other novel military technologies in the context of military and political decision-making, before setting out and objectively assessing a theoretical framework for the use of armed force that falls between classical and revisionist accounts of just war. Dr Jai Galliott leads the Values in Defence & Security Technology Group at the University of New South Wales, Canberra and holds fellowships at the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy and the Centre for Technology & Global Affairs at the University of Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474444229
• ISBN 13: 9781474444224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Galliott Jai