Is Remote Warfare Moral? Weighing Issues of Life and Death from 7,000 Miles

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.

ISBN:	9781541774452
Publisher:	Little, Brown
Imprint:	PublicAffairs
Published date:	14 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	172.42
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	484g
Height:	161mm
Width:	251mm
Spine width:	29mm

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