The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics / edited by James Turner Johnson, Rutgers University, USA and Eric D. Patterson, Regent University, USA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The choice whether to use military force -- The decision to use military force in classical just war thinking / Gregory M. Reichberg -- The decision to use military force in recent moral argument / Daniel R. Brunstetter -- Contemporary international law on the decision to use armed force / Davis Brown -- The role of the military in the decision to use armed force / Martin L. Cook -- Special Problems I : the question of preemption / Mary Manjikian -- Special problems II : the response to asymmetric warfare and terrorism / Keith Pavlischek -- Special problems III : the question of using military force in the frame of the responsibility to protect / Luke Glanville -- Special problems IV : questions posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction / Darrell Cole -- Part II. Right conduct in the use of military force -- Framing the issues in moral terms I : applying the just war tradition / J. Daryl Charles -- Framing the issues in moral terms II : the Kantian perspective on jus in bello / Brian Orend -- Framing the issues in moral terms III : rights and right conduct / Robert E. Williams, Jr. -- International humanitarian law / Howard M. Hensel -- Boston to where : the challenges posed by local-global terrorism / Amos N. Guiora -- Terrorism and ethics / Pauletta Otis -- The bombing of dual-use targets / Paul Robinson -- The ethics of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles / James L. Cook. -- Targeted killing / Laurie R. Blank -- Cyber warfare / George R. Lucas, Jr. -- The moral equality of combatants / Henrik Syse -- Treatment of prisoners and detainees / John Sawicki -- My country, right or wrong : if the cause is just, is anything allowed? / David Whetham -- No job for a soldier? : military ethics in peacekeeing operations / Bård Mæland -- Enforcing and strengthening noncombatant immunity / James Turner Johnson -- Understanding proportionality in contemporary armed conflict / Paul Gilbert -- Part III. Ethics after a conflict is over -- Security and political order : the ethics of who is in charge and enforcing the peace at war's end / Eric D. Patterson -- How should this conflict end? : implications of the end of an armed conflict for the decision to use military force and conduct in the use of such force / Timothy J. Demy -- War crimes tribunals after armed conflict / Carla L. Reyes -- Fostering reconciliation as a goal of military ethics / Nigel Biggar -- Part IV. Perspectives from other cultures -- Ethics in the Islamic tradition on war / John Kelsay -- Chinese traditions on military ethics / Ping-cheung Lo -- The Indian tradition / Torkel Brekke.