01921cam a2200253Ii 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002200063020002500085035002200110050001900132100001600151245008900167250001200256260004600268300001500314504005100329520113700380650002101517942001201538952010401550999001301654on1128195631OCoLCta210204s2020    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a019886051X (hbk.)  a9780198860518 (hbk.)  a(OCoLC)1128195631  aU22b.D63 20201 aDobos, Ned.10aEthics, security, and the war-machine :bthe true cost of the military /cNed Dobos.  a1st ed.  aOxford :bOxford University Press,c2020.  avi, 173 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aIf pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization-or military abolition-would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the other hand, if war is sometimes justified, as many believe, then it must be permissible to prepare for it by creating and maintaining a0military establishment. Yet this view that the justifiability of war-making is also sufficient to justify war-building is mistaken. 0This book addresses questions of jus ante bellum, or justice before war. Under what circumstances is it justifiable for a polity to prepare for war by militarizing? When (if ever) and why (if at all) is it morally permissible to create and maintain the potential to wage war? In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent military establishment, explores the moral and social costs of militarization, and evaluates whether or not these costs are worth bearing. 4aMilitary ethics.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oU22 .D63 2020pPNLIB21060741r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c927d927