TY - JOUR
T1 - Winning Well by Fighting Well: Probability of Success and the Relations between War's Ends and Warfighters' Roles
AU - Henschke, Adam
AU - Evans, Nicholas
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Modern warfare has shifted from the traditional conception of states involved in self-defensive wars to include peacekeeping missions, humanitarian intervention, regional stabilisation in the face of natural disasters, and more. A central criterion from just war traditions is the probability of successgiven the magnitude of harms that large military operations are expected to cause; there must be some likelihood that the military operation will be successful. However, how likely a given military operation will be is dependent, in part at least, on the capacities of those acting in the given military operation. Our paper shows that the capacities of those involved in a military action bear upon the likelihood of that operation being successful. A central goal of this paper is to argue for the recognition of the training of soldiers as a moral requirement for the just war.
AB - Modern warfare has shifted from the traditional conception of states involved in self-defensive wars to include peacekeeping missions, humanitarian intervention, regional stabilisation in the face of natural disasters, and more. A central criterion from just war traditions is the probability of successgiven the magnitude of harms that large military operations are expected to cause; there must be some likelihood that the military operation will be successful. However, how likely a given military operation will be is dependent, in part at least, on the capacities of those acting in the given military operation. Our paper shows that the capacities of those involved in a military action bear upon the likelihood of that operation being successful. A central goal of this paper is to argue for the recognition of the training of soldiers as a moral requirement for the just war.
U2 - 10.5840/ijap201226212
DO - 10.5840/ijap201226212
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 149
EP - 163
JO - International Journal of Applied Philosophy
JF - International Journal of Applied Philosophy
IS - 2
ER -