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Author Perry, David L., 1959- author.

Title Partly cloudy : ethics in war, espionage, covert action, and interrogation / David L. Perry
Edition Second edition
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Security and professional intelligence education series
Security and professional intelligence education series.
Contents An introduction to ethical reasoning -- Comparative religious perspectives on war -- Just and unjust war in Shakespeare's Henry V -- Anticipating and preventing atrocities in war -- Battlefield euthanasia : should military mercy-killings be allowed? -- Secret intelligence and American democracy -- The KGB : CIA's traditional adversary -- Espionage -- Covert action -- Targeted killing -- Interrogation -- Epilogue: On peacemaking
Summary "Partly Cloudy : Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel. It provides a robust and practical approach to analyzing ethical issues in war and intelligence operations, and applies careful reasoning to issues of vital importance today, not only for soldiers, intelligence professionals, and policy makers, but also for the citizens they serve and protect. This new edition has been updated throughout and includes new contents, to deal with critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia on the battlefield as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings as a means to fight insurgencies"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Military ethics -- United States
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Espionage, American -- Moral and ethical aspects
Military interrogation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Military ethics.
War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Espionage -- Moral and ethical aspects
Military interrogation -- Moral and ethical aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Military ethics
War -- Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016038989
ISBN 9781442262041
1442262044