Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War (Columbia/Hurst)
Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, 2010
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- Title
- Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War (Columbia/Hurst)
- Author
- Slim, Hugo
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0231700377
- ISBN 13
- 9780231700375
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It would have been good if the treaties passed in the aftermath of the horrors of the Second World War had been upheld. But as Slim's very readable and instructive book makes clear, the conflicts of the last century have been marked by a spirit of complete indifference to the sufferings of civilians. Increasingly, they have been not protected, but targeted. Starvation and rape are used more and more as weapons of war. From Rwanda to Darfur, wars have been conducted not between combatants but through murder and scorched earth policies, and not because the participants are disorganised or undisciplined but because they have decided that terror and barbarity work best for them. Suicide bombers, child soldiers, marauding bands of killers, displacement caused by climate change, and the destruction of civil society in countries repeatedly at war have all played havoc with the orderly rules of conflict. What is left, as Hugo Slim persuasively argues, is morality. In every war, the historian Geoffrey Best wrote, there will always be people who are indelibly innocent ... unrecognisable as enemies except through the distorting lenses of barbarous and fanaticized mentalities , and morality demands that such people be protected. For Slim, whose book brings a refreshing and original eye to a difficult theme, the solution can come only from hard and courageous moral choices . The safety of civilians lies not in debates over weapons, but in political will, the express decision not to target and kill civilians. Whether anyone will actually choose to rise to this challenge is one of the fundamental questions of modern war.' --Caroline Moorhead, The Literary Review
An excellent book. ... I recommend it to the practitioner, political, humanitarian and military, and in equal measure to the general public in whose name they act. --General Sir Rupert Smith, KCB, DSO, OBE, QGM, author, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
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