Richard Adams

Politics and the General in Supreme Command (eBook, ePUB)

Law Reform and Averting Unjust War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040260883
• Artikelnr.: 72270635

Autorenporträt

Richard Adams is a commander in the Royal Australian Navy. He has doctorates from the University of Western Australia and the University of New South Wales. He was an Australian Fulbright scholar to Yale University and a visiting research fellow to the Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 What's Been Said - Scholarship has Paid Insufficient Attention to the
General
3 Law and War - Law Cannot Capture War's Moral Complexity
4 Liberalism and Law - The Risk in Law's Overstatement
5 Conscience - Some Things will be Morally Impossible
6 For All of Us, As One of Us - The General is Equal as a Citizen
7 More Than a Postman - The General's Singular Burden
8 Let the General Say No - Moral Space in the Shadow of Law
9 Conclusion