Author: David Chuter
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A study detailing the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of French security policy since 1919. Chuter (Ministry of Defence, London) explains how and why security policy has developed since that time, arguing that the origins of current policy lie even further back in history and, through a cultural network of myths and symbolisms, continues to influence how the French perceive contemporary events--often to the bewilderment of Anglo-Saxon countries with a vastly different set of experiences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Humanity's Soldier
Author: David Chuter
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A study detailing the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of French security policy since 1919. Chuter (Ministry of Defence, London) explains how and why security policy has developed since that time, arguing that the origins of current policy lie even further back in history and, through a cultural network of myths and symbolisms, continues to influence how the French perceive contemporary events--often to the bewilderment of Anglo-Saxon countries with a vastly different set of experiences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A study detailing the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of French security policy since 1919. Chuter (Ministry of Defence, London) explains how and why security policy has developed since that time, arguing that the origins of current policy lie even further back in history and, through a cultural network of myths and symbolisms, continues to influence how the French perceive contemporary events--often to the bewilderment of Anglo-Saxon countries with a vastly different set of experiences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Crime of Aggression, Humanity, and the Soldier
Author: Tom Dannenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107169186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Explores the moral and legal implications of the criminality of aggressive war for the soldiers who fight, kill and are killed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1107169186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Explores the moral and legal implications of the criminality of aggressive war for the soldiers who fight, kill and are killed.
Against Humanity
Author: Sam Dubal
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520296095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Introduction : against humanity -- How violence became inhuman : the making of modern moral sensibilities -- Gorilla warfare : life in and beyond the bush -- Beyond reason : magic and science in the LRA -- Interlude : Re-turn and dis-integration -- Rebel kinship beyond humanity : love and belonging in the war -- Rebels and charity cases : politics, ethics, and the concept of humanity -- Conclusion : beyond humanity, or how do we heal?
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520296095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Introduction : against humanity -- How violence became inhuman : the making of modern moral sensibilities -- Gorilla warfare : life in and beyond the bush -- Beyond reason : magic and science in the LRA -- Interlude : Re-turn and dis-integration -- Rebel kinship beyond humanity : love and belonging in the war -- Rebels and charity cases : politics, ethics, and the concept of humanity -- Conclusion : beyond humanity, or how do we heal?
The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity
Author: Sonja C. Grover
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030750027
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.e. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and under the statutes of other international criminal courts (i.e. the Special Court of Sierra Leone)). The book introduces a completely original concept in international criminal law, however, in discussing age-based persecution of children as an international crime against humanity where (i) the particular discrete child collective is targeted ‘as such’ for international atrocity crimes or (ii) individual children are targeted based on their age-based group identity as it intersects with other perpetrator – targeted characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion etc.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030750027
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.e. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and under the statutes of other international criminal courts (i.e. the Special Court of Sierra Leone)). The book introduces a completely original concept in international criminal law, however, in discussing age-based persecution of children as an international crime against humanity where (i) the particular discrete child collective is targeted ‘as such’ for international atrocity crimes or (ii) individual children are targeted based on their age-based group identity as it intersects with other perpetrator – targeted characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion etc.
War for Humanity Omnibus
Author: Will Crudge
Publisher: Will Crudge
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Do aliens fear humans? According to our galactic neighbors they do! Five millennia in the future, Humanity as yet to set aside their capacity for war, which may end up being the galaxy’s salvation!
Publisher: Will Crudge
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Do aliens fear humans? According to our galactic neighbors they do! Five millennia in the future, Humanity as yet to set aside their capacity for war, which may end up being the galaxy’s salvation!
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
Author: Brent L. Sterling
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589017277
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1589017277
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?, defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defenses such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security. Sterling studies six famous defenses spanning 2,500 years, representing both democratic and authoritarian regimes: the Long Walls of Athens, Hadrian’s Wall in Roman Britain, the Ming Great Wall of China, Louis XIV’s Pré Carré, France’s Maginot Line, and Israel’s Bar Lev Line. Although many of these barriers were effective in the short term, they also affected the states that created them in terms of cost, strategic outlook, military readiness, and relations with neighbors. Sterling assesses how modern barriers against ground and air threats could influence threat perceptions, alter the military balance, and influence the builder’s subsequent policy choices. Advocates and critics of strategic defenses often bolster their arguments by selectively distorting history. Sterling emphasizes the need for an impartial examination of what past experience can teach us. His study yields nuanced lessons about strategic barriers and international security and yields findings that are relevant for security scholars and compelling to general readers.
Of Crime and Humanity
Author: MA’ON SHAN
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789017041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
After her mother was killed by a landmine while fleeing from the soldiers, a Burmese girl joins a Resistance group based on the Burmese-Thai border which employs violence as the chief weapon against tyranny. But the violence is not the same as terrorism, as the group operate by abiding the tough-minded pragmatism of Aung San Suu Kyi, known as ‘the Lady’. Of Crime and Humanity seeks to enlighten readers, through the telling of the adventure of a Burmese girl, of what it is like to be a contemporary of the Lady, and more importantly how Man is held in bitter bondage to his time rigidly and tragically. If there’s an answer to the Lady’s dramatic transformation, it is based on an understanding of compassion and human nature in its complexity and darkness. Based on true events of the Burmese revolutionary days, Of Crime and Humanity describes what it is like being a Burmese girl living under military brutalisation.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789017041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
After her mother was killed by a landmine while fleeing from the soldiers, a Burmese girl joins a Resistance group based on the Burmese-Thai border which employs violence as the chief weapon against tyranny. But the violence is not the same as terrorism, as the group operate by abiding the tough-minded pragmatism of Aung San Suu Kyi, known as ‘the Lady’. Of Crime and Humanity seeks to enlighten readers, through the telling of the adventure of a Burmese girl, of what it is like to be a contemporary of the Lady, and more importantly how Man is held in bitter bondage to his time rigidly and tragically. If there’s an answer to the Lady’s dramatic transformation, it is based on an understanding of compassion and human nature in its complexity and darkness. Based on true events of the Burmese revolutionary days, Of Crime and Humanity describes what it is like being a Burmese girl living under military brutalisation.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Author: Paul Scharre
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Compassionate Soldier
Author: Jerry Borrowman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629722924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion, even knowing their actions could put their lives and liberty at risk. Included in this collection are the stories of Richard Kirkland, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who disobeyed orders and brought blankets and water to the wounded from both North and South during the Battle of Fredericksburg; Patrick Ferguson, a British soldier during the American Revolution who had the chance to kill George Washington, but refused to shoot a man in the back; and Oswald Boelcke, a German WWI flying ace who was one of the most influential tacticians of early air combat, but was known for making sure the airmen he shot down made it to the ground alive. These inspirational stories illustrate that even in the midst of unspeakable horrors of war, acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, and humanity can prevail and, in doing so, expand our conventional thinking of honor and battlefield glory.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629722924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion, even knowing their actions could put their lives and liberty at risk. Included in this collection are the stories of Richard Kirkland, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War who disobeyed orders and brought blankets and water to the wounded from both North and South during the Battle of Fredericksburg; Patrick Ferguson, a British soldier during the American Revolution who had the chance to kill George Washington, but refused to shoot a man in the back; and Oswald Boelcke, a German WWI flying ace who was one of the most influential tacticians of early air combat, but was known for making sure the airmen he shot down made it to the ground alive. These inspirational stories illustrate that even in the midst of unspeakable horrors of war, acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, and humanity can prevail and, in doing so, expand our conventional thinking of honor and battlefield glory.
In the Name of Humanity
Author: Ilana Feldman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348217
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348217
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.