Reflections

Defining “Enduring Strategic Defeat”: Ethical Dilemmas or Security Dilemmas?

Jesse Driscoll

Introductory Note: Jesse Driscoll is an associate professor of political science at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is an area specialist in Central Asia, the Causcasus, and the Russian-speaking world. In 2022, he took a year's leave from UCSD to serve in the Plans division of the Joint Staff (J5, Europe/NATO/Russia Division). The following narrative includes his

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“Just War” Debates and Evolving Uses of Force

Daniel Brunstetter

The challenges:

  • Moving beyond academic critique and arm’s length critiques of defense policy from a “just war” perspective to discussions within military circles based on a more interdisciplinary perspective
  • Engaging with future peace and security policymakers to update the “moral vocabulary” around the use of force to take into account the new dilemmas of force short of war, such
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AI and Machine Learning in the U.S. Military Context

John R. Emery

The challenges:

  • Determining in which stages of development or deployment of technology to engage with machine learning, using a just war logic
  • Choosing to closely engage with a military project as a critical scholar, given that the use of the project may result in the loss of human life

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John R. Emery is

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Ethics of Engagement and Sources of Funding

Tanisha M. Fazal

The challenges:

  • How to fund policy relevant research without compromising ethics.
  • The complexities of managing government funding.
  • The dilemmas of private foundation funding.
  • The positionality of funding dilemmas.

The background and policy setting:

All scholars need funding for research. Sometimes we need to pay for field research, sometimes for surveys. Sometimes – indeed, often – what we most

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