Military Issues

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

By mwd / / Comments Off on Defining “Enduring Strategic Defeat”: Ethical Dilemmas or Security Dilemmas?

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). […]

Read More

“Just War” Debates and Evolving Uses of Force

By mwd / / Comments Off on “Just War” Debates and Evolving Uses of Force

The challenges: The background and policy setting: Brunstetter started his Ph.D. in 2000 in the context of “just war” debates, which were shaped by 9/11 shortly thereafter. He was not trained as a Just War scholar. He was interested in the parallels between the 16th century debates about just war and “barbarians” and the Bush […]

Read More

AI and Machine Learning in the U.S. Military Context

By mwd / / Comments Off on AI and Machine Learning in the U.S. Military Context

The challenges: The background and policy setting: John R. Emery is a scholar who works on the intersection of technology, international security, and the ethics of war. His recent work focuses on issues of how emotion, abstraction, and human-machine interaction effect ethical decision-making in war. His work in Critical Military Studies analyzed the utilization of […]

Read More

Ethics of Engagement and Sources of Funding

By mwd / / Comments Off on Ethics of Engagement and Sources of Funding

The challenges: 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 need is time to write. Happily, there are many sources of funding, from private foundations to governments and others, available (although of course […]

Read More
Ethics of Engagement