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Cathal J. Nolan
This collection of essays cuts to the quick of the most pressing moral issues facing decision-makers today, from the actions of ordinary soldiers in a combat zone to presidents deciding when and where to use force.Ethics lie at the heart of human and
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This chapter relates individual stories of combat mercy, including the tale of Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld’s final choice that made him a moral hero his foes could not forget. Within hours of hand-to-hand combat contesting a small forester’s hut,
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Cathal J. Nolan
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Mercy ISBN: 019007728X
Following the Crimean War, lawyers and reformers thought that even war might be made more rule-bound and humane. Those peaceful decades led to codified rules of “cruiser warfare” in 1856 for surface ships on distance raids, supplemented by the Ha
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Cathal J. Nolan
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This chapter considers how wars end and how belligerents stop fighting as a prelude to a return to peace. It notes that wars often end following experimental ceasefires or truces, sometimes spontaneous among opposing armies but more often negotiated.
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Cathal J. Nolan
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War heroes thrive in all cultures. Stories about warrior heroism date at least to Babylonian and Akkadian tablet tales of the great warrior king Gilgamesh and to tomb cults in Iron Age Greece in the 8th century bce. Writers crafted world literature a
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Cathal J. Nolan
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This chapter explores dissent from nationalist wartime policies by the most morally valiant in different societies and generations. It cites Siegfried Sassoon’s famously vehement dissent from Britain’s war, which he had supported in 1914 but turn
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Cathal J. Nolan
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This chapter discusses European cultural views prior to World War I, where elites believed that their civilization was superior to all others and that science and trade and enlightened rationalism would be victorious over barbarism, including bringin
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Cathal J. Nolan
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This chapter concerns the virtue of mercy in war, emphasizing the pity of war that Welsh poet Wilfred Owen dwelled on before he was killed in November 1918 in the last week of the Great War. It shows how mercy limits cruelty in ways laws and honor co
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Cathal J. Nolan
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Merciful sensibility, alongside cruelty and criminality, is found in war at the start and end more than in the middle. The shift back to restraint is rooted in recall of prewar perceptions of shared humanity that stir natural feelings of mercy. The c
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Cathal J. Nolan
This book relates stories of morally decent actions in a broader context of the essential barbarism of war. It charts the wider path of obscenity and atrocity in war to highlight moments of moral grace, of goodwill toward the enemy and civilians insi
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