Is Remote Warfare Moral?

Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles

Is Remote Warfare Moral?
Joseph O Chapa
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Hardback
h242 x 154mm - 288pg
14 Jul 2022 US
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9781541774452
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Joseph O. Chapa, with unique credentials as 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.
"[E]ven those who have already made up their minds about the morality of war will find a challenging examination of questions to which we are still developing answers. . . A hard-nosed look at the morality of drone warfare from a writer who has seen it close-up. "--Kirkus "Chapa' s firsthand experience gives his philosophical conclusions weight. . . a well-informed study. "--Publishers Weekly
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
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781541774452
Published: 14 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: PublicAffairs (US)
Publisher: PublicAffairs (US)
Format: Hardback
Height: 242mm
Width: 154mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 288

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