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Podcast: New Books in Military History
Episode: Lily Hamourtziadou, "The Ethics of Remote Warfare" (University of Wales Press, 2024)
Description: Can there be purely defensive or moral wars? In response to this question and others like it, this book offers unique insights into twenty-first-century warfare through the lenses of realism, militarism, and just war theory. This book challenges its readers to consider war from different perspectives and to reevaluate their views on the morality of war.Ethical approaches to war require that we donβt value only the lives of βourβ people, as realism asserts; that we donβt enforce our sense of justice with weapons, as militarism demands; that force is used only in self-defense, based on the prin...