Shannon E. French

The Code of the Warrior (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Combining ethics, history, and psychology, this book examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that today's warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldier and killer.

Exploring the roots of military ethics, this third edition furthers author Shannon French's argument that modern troops need a code to shield their humanity as they endure the horrors of war, including updated first and last chapters addressing the need for warrior codes throughout history and in today's military climate. Stories of ancient Greek and Roman soldiers, Chinese warrior monks, Vikings, Celts, Japanese samurai, medieval European knights, Islamic warriors, and Zulu warriors combine with contemporary perspectives on modern day warfare's latest technologies and power structures to present a truly global and timeless case for the exercise of restraint in warfare-primarily for the benefit of those doing the fighting.

A new chapter on the famous Zulu warrior Chief Shaka makes the important distinction between a warrior and a strongman. Incorporating philosophy with history, religion, anthropology, sociology, and moral psychology, French addresses concepts which resonate within and beyond military service. She also presents thoughtful answers to complex questions such as: Why should one side of a conflict show restraint if the other side does not? How can a command climate become corrupted? What is the difference between a warrior and a murderer, or a terrorist, or a strongman? How do changes in technology affect the conduct of war?

French provides analysis grounded in her own decades of work with and for members of the U.S. military, as well as her extensive, international scholarship in military ethics. It is a must-read book for anyone interested in how wars can be fought ethically and how warriors can be spared the worst moral injury that comes from betraying their own chosen core values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881863470
• Artikelnr.: 75682802

Autorenporträt

Shannon E. French is the Inamori Professor in Ethics, director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and a professor in philosophy and law at Case Western Reserve University, USA. Prior to CWRU, she taught for eleven years at the United States Naval Academy. She founded the first MA program in Military Ethics at CWRU, works globally with the US and allied military, service academies, and chaplain corps, and held the General Hugh Shelton Distinguished Visiting Chair in Ethics for seven years. Her core fields are military ethics and ethical issues in emerging technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword from the First Edition: Senator John McCain
Chapter 1. Why Warriors Need a Code: Shielding Humanity in the Horror of
War
Chapter 2. The Homeric Hero: A Hector Who Wins?
Chapter 3. The Two Faces of Rome: Stoicism and Hedonism in Service to the
State
Chapter 4. Vicious Vikings: Vengeance, Valkyries, and Valhalla
Chapter 5. Shaka Zulu: Strongmen, Instability, and the Disruption of the
Status Quo
Chapter 6. Knights of the Round Table: Never To Do Outrage Nor Murder
Chapter 7. Indigenous Americans: Warrior Transitions on the Sacred Plains
Chapter 8. Chinese Warrior Monks: The Peaceful Martial Artists of Shaolin
Chapter 9. The Soul of the Samurai: Balancing Duty, Devotion, and Death
Chapter 10. Sultan Saladin and the Warriors of Islam: Revelation and the
Rules of Engagement
Chapter 11. The Warrior's Code Today: Do We Need New Ethics of War?
Index
About the Author