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Is Remote Warfare Moral?

Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles
By Joseph O Chapa
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Is Remote Warfare Moral? by Joseph O Chapa explores the ethical implications of contemporary military strategies that involve deploying technology like drones for combat operations. The author delves into the moral questions surrounding the use of remote warfare, examining its impact on both military personnel and civilians. The book critically analyses moral responsibilities and the broader consequences of such warfare tactics.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in exploring the ethical implications of modern warfare technologies. It examines the moral questions surrounding remote warfare, providing a deep dive into the complexities and debates faced by military decision-makers in the digital age. Those intrigued by the intersection of technology, ethics, and military strategy may find this read particularly compelling.

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Is Remote Warfare Moral?

America is at an important turning point. Remote warfare is not just a mainstay of post-9/11 wars, it is a harbinger of what lies ahead-a future of high-tech, artificial intelligence-enabled, and autonomous weapons systems that raise a host of new ethical questions. Most fundamentally, is remote warfare moral? And if so, why?

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Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as an Air Force officer, Predator pilot, and doctorate in moral philosophy, serves as our guide to understanding this future, able to engage in both the language of military operations and the language of moral philosophy.

Through gripping accounts of remote pilots making life-and-death decisions and analysis of high-profile cases such as the killing of Iranian high government official General Qasem Soleimani, Chapa examines remote warfare within the context of the just war tradition, virtue, moral psychology, and moral responsibility. He develops the principles we should use to evaluate its morality, especially as pilots apply human judgment in morally complex combat situations.

Moving on to the bigger picture, he examines how the morality of human decisions in remote war is situated within the broader moral context of US foreign policy and the future of warfare.

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Is Remote Warfare Moral? by Joseph O Chapa receives praise for integrating moral philosophy with firsthand warfighting experience, providing a significant contribution to drone strike morality discourse. Journal of Military Ethics notes its comprehensive approach, while Kirkus commends its challenging examination for those with pre-set views on war morality. Publishers Weekly highlights the weight Chapa's experience lends to his philosophical insights, resulting in a well-informed study.

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ISBN: 9781541774452

Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 288

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Education & Reference Joseph O Chapa Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Joseph O. Chapa is a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, he is the Air Force's lead ethicist for artificial intelligence and he leads the Department of the Air Force's Artificial Intelligence Cross-Functional Team. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include just war theory, military ethics, and especially the ethics of remote and autonomous weapons. His doctoral research investigates an individual rights-based account of just war theory. He is a senior pilot with more than 1,400 pilot and instructor pilot hours, many of which were flown in support of major U.S. combat and humanitarian operations

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