- Just War Theory for Morale and Moral Injury: Beyond Individual ResilienceJournal of Military Ethics13 January 2025By Tine Molendijk a Department of Military Management Studies, Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defense Academy, Breda, The Netherlandsb Department of Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsTine Molendijk is an interdisciplinary-minded anthropologist specializing in violence, military culture, ethics and mental health, in particular, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and moral injury. Currently, she works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defense Academy (NLDA) and the Radboud University. At the NLDA, she is head of the Research Center of Military Management Sciences. Among her publications is the award-winning book Moral Injury and Soldiers in Conflict: Political Practices and Public Perceptions (Routledge, 2021).
- Bring Them Home: Creating a Humane and Enforceable POW Parole SystemJournal of Military Ethics10 January 2025By Maciej Zając Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, PolandMaciej Zając is a postdoc at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Warsaw in 2022 for a dissertation entitled “Autonomous Weapon Systems in Just War Theory Perspective”. He has published several articles on ethical issues surrounding autonomous weapons systems, as well as on other topics within military and war ethics in journals such as Ethics and Information Technology, Journal of Military Ethics, Diametros, and Ethics & Armed Forces. His current project examines several unresolved issues with AWS adoption, including their ability to recognize and accept surrender.
- A Framework to Integrate Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects (ELSA) in the Development and Deployment of Human Performance Enhancement (HPE) Technologies and Applications in Military ContextsJournal of Military Ethics08 January 2025By Marc Steen Koen Hogenelst Heleen Huijgen a TNO, Human Behaviour and Collaboration, The Hague, The Netherlandsb TNO, Human Performance, Soesterberg, The Netherlandsc TNO, Surface & Aerospace Warfare, The Hague, The NetherlandsMarc Steen works as a senior research scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). He is an expert in responsible innovation, human-centred design, value-sensitive design, applied ethics of technology, and virtue ethics. His mission is to promote the design and application of technologies in ways that help to create a just society in which people can live well together and flourish.Koen Hogenelst works as a senior research scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). With a background in neuroscience, his research concentrates on measuring and improving mental health and cognitive performance, in both the civil and military domains. His goal is to align experimental research with applied and field-based research, to pave the way for implementation, practical use, and impact.Heleen Huijgen is a legal scientist and consultant at TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). She works in the field of integrating legal aspects into emerging technologies within a military operational and strategic environment. Her mission is to create legal safeguards for the protection of (civil) society at a very early stage in the development of new technologies.
- Military AI EthicsJournal of Military Ethics26 December 2024By Joseph Chapa Marine Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia, USAJoseph Chapa is an officer in the US Air Force and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include just war theory, military ethics, and especially the ethics of remote weapons and the ethics of artificial intelligence. He is a senior pilot with more than 1400 pilot and instructor pilot hours. He currently serves as a military faculty member at the Marine Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA, and previously served as the Department of the Air Force’s first Chief Responsible AI Ethics Officer. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect any part of the US government.
- Principles and Virtues in AI EthicsJournal of Military Ethics20 December 2024By Paul Scherz Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USAPaul Scherz is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He began his career in science with a PhD in genetics from Harvard, before receiving a PhD in Moral Theology from Notre Dame. He has published widely on bioethics, science and religion, and technology ethics. He is the author of Science and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 2019), Tomorrow’s Troubles: Risk, Anxiety, Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance (Georgetown, 2022), and The Ethics of Precision Medicine (Notre Dame, 2024). He is co-editor of The Evening of Life (Notre Dame, 2020) and Encountering Artificial Intelligence (Pickwick, 2024).
- Will Algorithms Win Medals of Honor? Artificial Intelligence, Human Virtues, and the Future of WarfareJournal of Military Ethics16 December 2024By William Hasselberger Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, PortugalWilliam Hasselberger, a philosopher, is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal (IEP-UCP), and the Director of the Digital Ethics Laboratory. William serves as the Vice-president for the UCP Research Ethics Commission for Technology, Social Sciences and the Humanities, and is also a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. William researches both foundational and applied issues in moral philosophy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology ethics, the psychology of character and well-being, and phenomenology and the philosophy of mind. He is currently co-authoring a book about the philosophical foundations of AI and the impact of social applications of AI on human relationships, moral character, and our self-understanding as human beings.
- Clothing the Naked Soldier: Virtuous Conduct on the Augmented Reality BattlefieldJournal of Military Ethics12 December 2024By Anna Feuer School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, CA, USAAnna Feuer is an assistant teaching professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the director of the undergraduate program in International Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research is in international security, focusing on insurgency and counterinsurgency, defense technology, war and the environment, and military ethics. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. As a Marshall Scholar, she studied international history and politics at Oxford and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Before joining UC San Diego, Feuer was the Julian Steward Chair of the Social Sciences at Deep Springs College in eastern California.
- There Is No Ethical Automation: Stanislav Petrov’s Ordeal by ProtocolJournal of Military Ethics11 December 2024By Antón Barba-Kay a Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown University Law School, Washington, DC, USAb Institute for Practical Ethics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USAAntón Barba-Kay is Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, as well as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego. He earned a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His publications on Hegel and nineteenth century European philosophy have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Hegel-Studien, and the Review of Metaphysics, among others. He has also published essays about culture and technology for a broader audience in The New Republic, Commonweal, The Point, and other magazines. A Web of Our Own Making – his book about what the internet is and what a difference it makes – was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.
- The Conscience of HumankindJournal of Military Ethics05 November 2024By Henrik Syse
- Soldiers and Courage: An Afghan CaseJournal of Military Ethics05 November 2024By Cornelia Vikan The Norwegian Air Force Academy, Trondheim, NorwayCornelia Vikan is an associate professor at the Department of Leadership at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy, which is part of the Norwegian Defense University College. Based on her military and civilian background within intelligence, languages, and the ethics of war, she specializes in military ethics. Among her contributions are articles on the meaning of the values of responsibility and respect in complex conflicts, published in Journal of Military Ethics and Etikk i praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics. Both articles are based on the case described in the present article. Her main interest continues to be ethics education in the military, within and across military disciplines, and she is currently co-editing a book on professional ethics for military education in Norway.
- Towards a Reflective Stance of Honor and Dignity – An Inquiry into the Use of Force by Analyzing the US Navy’s Crossing the Line RitualJournal of Military Ethics25 October 2024By Steven Breunig Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DenmarkSteven Breunig is Associate Professor of English and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense (SDU). His main research interests lie within the fields of English, intercultural communication and strategic communication. His PhD is within embodied cognition and language. Before pursuing academics, he served in the US military. A graduate of the Defense Information School (DINFOS), he served as a US Navy journalist and public affairs assistant with the U.S. Naval Forces Japan (CNFJ) and onboard the guided missile destroyer USS Towers (DDG-9), forward deployed from Yokosuka, Japan.
- In Between Digital War and PeaceJournal of Military Ethics22 October 2024By Jasmijn Boeken a Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, Den Haag, The Netherlandsb Centre of Expertise Cyber Security, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Den Haag, The NetherlandsJasmijn Boeken is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, specializing in the intersection between ethics and cybersecurity. She holds a MSc in political theory from Radboud University. With a foundation in political science and privacy ethics, her research has expanded into the ethical dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberwar. Her current work, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team (C-SIDE), focuses on security by integrated design, emphasizing the need for a cohesive ethical framework within corporate cybersecurity governance. Beyond this project, Jasmijn’s research delves into key areas such as cyberwar, cyber risk management, business ethics, ethics of care, and the governance structures of corporate cybersecurity. Through her research, Jasmijn aims to challenge conventional views on cybersecurity, advocating for it to be recognized not merely as a technical concern but as an integral, ethically-driven component of corporate and governmental strategy.
- Amending the Military’s Rules of Engagement to Consider BlameJournal of Military Ethics14 October 2024By Stephen C. S. DiLorenzo Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, USAStephen C. S. DiLorenzo is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy and has earned an M.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Davis. His philosophic interests are focused in normative ethics and applied ethical issues in warfare, self-defense, blame, and moral injury. He is also a Major in the U.S. Army with backgrounds in military intelligence and aviation.
- Artificial Intelligence, Warfare and Ethics in IndiaJournal of Military Ethics07 October 2024By Kaushik Roy Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaKaushik Roy is a Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He was a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway, until January 2022, and has been attached with PRIO in different capacities for about two decades. Until early 2023, he was engaged in PRIO’s “Warring with Machines” project. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Roy was also an ICCR Visiting Professor in 2013 at Aarhus University, Denmark. Roy specialises in the Eurasian military history. He has worked extensively on both conventional and unconventional wars of pre-modern, early modern and present eras. He has published books with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge and other publishers. He has also published articles in various academic journals. He is the Chief Editor of Oxford Online Military History Bibliographies.
- A Return to Right Intention in the Just WarJournal of Military Ethics30 September 2024By Greg Ray Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USAGreg Ray is Professor of Philosophy and University Term Professor at the University of Florida. His areas of specialization include philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His main work is in philosophical logic – the application of formal methods to philosophical problems. Military ethics, the ethics of AI, and the theory of action are developing areas of interest.
- Delivering Military Ethics Education to the Colombian Armed Forces: Centre for Military Ethics’ Collaboration with Colombian Military Educational FacilitiesJournal of Military Ethics24 September 2024By Marina Miron Andres Eduardo Fernandez-Osorio David Whetham a Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, London, UKb Escuela Superior de Guerra “General Rafael Reyes Prieto”, Bogotá, ColombiaMaria Miron holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. She is a Member of the King’s College London Centre for Military Ethics (KCME), and a Researcher in Military Science at the Escuela Superior de Guerra “General Rafael Reyes Prieto” in Bogotá.Andres Eduardo Fernandez-Osorio holds a Ph.D. in Law and Political Science from the University of Barcelona, an MA in Defence Studies from King’s College London, an MA in Economy, State, and Society from University College London, and an MA in International Relations from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is an Associate Professor at the Escuela Superior de Guerra “General Rafael Reyes Prieto”, in Bogotá.David Whetham holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London. He is Professor of Ethics and Military Profession at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, and is Director of the King’s College London Centre for Military Ethics (KCME).
- Does History Matter?Journal of Military Ethics22 July 2024By Henrik Syse
- The Warfare Ideology of Ordeal: Another Form of Just War Thinking? Theory and Practice from the Early Middle AgesJournal of Military Ethics19 July 2024By Mihaly Boda Department of Military History, Philosophy and Cultural History, University of Public Service, Budapest, HungaryMihaly Boda is an Associate Professor of Military Ethics at the National University of Public Service, in Budapest, Hungary. He has worked mainly on the topic of military virtues and moral abilities. He has also worked on issues such as the ethics of war and military ideologies, including just war theory, both historical and contemporary. He has a long-standing personal interest in historical military virtues and Hungarian warfare ideologies, particularly the idea of the Holy Crown.
- James Turner Johnson and the Just War Tradition: Selected EssaysJournal of Military Ethics15 July 2024By Edward Erwin Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, Newport, RI, USA
- An Ethics of Care Perspective on Care to Battlefield CasualtiesJournal of Military Ethics08 July 2024By Joshua Armstrong Lachlan Hegarty a School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Queensland, Australiab Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Department, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, AustraliaJoshua Armstrong is a current Australian Army medical officer with an interest in military ethics, in particular military medical ethics. He holds an MD degree and also a Master’s degree in Bioethics. He is an Associate Lecturer at Griffith University.Lachlan Hegarty is a Psychiatry Registrar with the Northern Sydney Local Health District undergoing training in psychiatry. He is the author of publications in Australasian Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine Australasia and has presented research across the fields of psychiatry, emergency medicine and general practice at medical conferences in Australia and New Zealand.
- Supporting Ethical Decision-Making for Lethal Autonomous WeaponsJournal of Military Ethics25 June 2024By Spencer Kohn Marvin Cohen Athena Johnson Mikhail Terman Gershon Weltman Joseph Lyons a Research and Development Department, Sherman Oaks, CA, USAb Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, USASpencer Kohn is the Director of Human Factors Research at Perceptronics Solutions; he is responsible for managing and contributing to research and development of human focused systems. His emphasis areas include calibrating trust in mixed human-automation teams through transparency, and maintaining situational awareness and balanced workload while using complex interfaces. Dr. Kohn has previously facilitated project development on topics including trauma medicine, combat jet piloting, and epidemiology; he has applied goal-directed task analyses to measure situational awareness in a virtual three-dimensional world, and designed and tested a Bayesian-based analytics and visualization system to supplement experts’ evaluation of trainee military aviators. His current projects include the Intelligent Human Machine Interface (IHMI), an ongoing project with the US Army focused on assessing and adapting operator’s trust, situational awareness, and workload in real-time based on non-obtrusive behavioral measures captured within the interface. Dr. Kohn received his Ph.D. in Psychology, Human Factors and Applied Cognition from George Mason University.Marvin Cohen is an expert in cognitive systems and decision analysis. At Perceptronics Solutions, Dr. Cohen is a Senior Research Scientist and a lead investigator in projects centering on team performance and team cognition. He has been a principal investigator on several human – autonomy team performance efforts and helped to develop the Causal Model-based Measurement and Visualization System (CMVS) for Team Performance in Command and Control of Unmanned Systems for ONR. Dr. Cohen collaborated with Prof. Eduardo Salas on the development of Team Performance Framework for the Army Research Institute and developed team readiness measures for the Navy. Most recently his development of a cognitively efficient uncertainty visualization interface was transitioned to the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT), a US Army Program of Record. Dr. Cohen has managed numerous projects involving the design, development, and testing of decision aids and research on human and normative decision processes. Dr. Cohen received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University and has over 150 publications in Journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.Athena Johnson is a Principal Software Engineer at Perceptronics Solutions Inc. She specializes in designing and developing user interfaces across multiple domains that range from research and development to fielded mission critical systems. Her focus areas include analysis of interactions through conceptual interfaces, providing situational understanding through cyber warfare systems, ensuring resilience in mission critical systems and command and control through autonomous collaboration of unmanned systems. During her time at Perceptronics Solutions, Ms. Johnson has worked on projects including the Development and Run-time Environment for Aviation Mission-tasking and Mission Management (DREAMM), a system that provides the ability to develop complex mission compositions using an intuitive user interface and simplified semantics. She also participated in the Robotics Enhancement Program (REP), where she was able to successfully demonstrate unmanned command and control systems in live flight exercises. Ms. Johnson holds a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a M.S. in Computer Science from Hood College.Mikhail Terman is a Data Scientist at Perceptronics Solutions, specializing in the application of generalized linear models, non-linear models, parametric and nonparametric tests, and time series analysis. At Perceptronics, Mr. Terman has analyzed and cleaned data in evaluating the use of new technologies for the U.S. Government, and has designed technical benchmarks for a number of AI based projects. Prior to joining Perceptronics, Mr. Terman collated and analyzed data on $250 million in loans to predict future losses that a private investment agency might incur, compared rating scales of foreign legal systems in order to predict loan repayment rates, tested proficiency of pre-existing models used by the department and found errors in active datasets and drafted a white paper on historical economic trends in Turkey and the performance of the country’s financial sector to predict losses during the 2018 fiscal crisis. Mr. Terman received his B.A. in Psychology, cum laude, from Haverford College, and his M.S. in Statistical Science from George Mason University.Gershon Weltman is an internationally respected expert in human factors and user interface design with a strong emphasis on training and simulation. Dr. Weltman’s professional experience includes his long-term executive and technical management of our predecessor company Perceptronics, Inc., where his responsibilities as CEO included developing new business and directing the creative design, production and delivery of many innovative simulation and decision support systems. In addition to serving as principal investigator on a number of current Perceptronics Solutions projects, and providing scientific direction to others, Dr. Weltman is a Lecturer in the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he teaches an undergraduate course on Engineering, Ethics and Society. Dr. Weltman was a six-year member of the U.S. Army Science Board, a select group that advises the Army on science and technology matters, and also served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Training for Future Conflicts. He has published numerous scientific, technical, and strategic papers, and has presented lectures and briefings at government, business, and professional meetings. He holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Man-Machine Systems from the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science.Joseph Lyons is a Principal Research Psychologist within the 711 Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Some of Dr. Lyons’ research interests include human-machine trust, interpersonal trust, human factors, and influence. Dr. Lyons has worked for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) as a civilian researcher since 2005, and between 2011 and 2013 he served as the Program Officer at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research where he created a basic research portfolio to study both interpersonal and human-machine trust as well as social influence. Dr. Lyons has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. He is an AFRL Fellow, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Fellow of the Society for Military Psychologists. Dr. Lyons received his Ph.D. in Industrial / Organizational Psychology from Wright State University.
- Military Medical Providers’ Postdeployment Perceptions of Operation Iraqi FreedomJournal of Military Ethics19 June 2024By Brian A. Moore Monty T. Baker Alyssa Ojeda Jennifer M. Hein Chelsea J. Sterne Stacey Young-McCaughan William C. Isler Alan L. Peterson a Department of Psychological Science, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USAb Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USAc College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USAd Department of Behavioral Health, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX, USAe Department of Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USAf Research and Development Service, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USAg United States Air Force, San Antonio, TX, USABrian A. Moore, is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Military and Emergency Services (AMES) Research and an assistant professor of psychology at Kennesaw State University. He spent 12 years in the Army and is currently a major in the United States Army Reserve. His research focuses on military personnel and the intersection between trauma, sleep, and resilience.Monty T. Baker, received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University. He is a licensed psychologist and has served almost 30 years in the U.S. military. He recently retired from active duty as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, serving the last 10 years supporting SOF Units. He is an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and has over 130 academic presentations and publications.Alyssa Ojeda, is a U.S. Army second lieutenant and a third-year clinical psychology doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University. She is the program coordinator of the Military Psychology Group. Her research interests involve the integration of resilience and physical fitness within military and first responder populations.Jennifer Hein, is a U.S. Army Captain and military physician with four years of time in active duty service. She is currently completing her second year of psychiatry residency training at Carl R. Darnall Medical Center, Ft. Hood, TX, and received her medical degree from the University of California, Riverside in 2018.Chelsea J. Sterne, is an Assistant Professor and the Program Director for Psychology at Cumberland University. She is a former Army human resources officer, and her research focuses on military personnel and the connection between trauma and chronic pain.Stacey Young-McCaughan, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a research health scientist with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Young-McCaughan (USA COL, Ret.) served 29 years as an Army Nurse Corps officer in a variety of clinical and research positions. She now supports investigators researching psychological health conditions. Her own particular research interests are in the areas of exercise and sleep.William C. Isler, recently retired as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force after 24 years of active duty and currently works for the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Isler specializes in health psychology and threat assessment.Alan L. Peterson, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences atThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, a research health scientist with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas, and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Peterson is a board-certified clinical health psychologist who served 21 years of active duty with the U.S. Air Force, including three post-9/11 deployments, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. He has clinical and research expertise in the areas of behavioral medicine, psychological trauma, and resiliency.
- A Little Lower but Still in the FightJournal of Military Ethics06 March 2024By James CookUS Air Force Academy
- Introduction to Special Issue: Moral Virtue and Moral InjuryJournal of Military Ethics05 March 2024By Henrik SyseJames Cook
- Skin in the Game: Moral Exploitation and the Case for Mandatory Military ServiceJournal of Military Ethics05 March 2024By Michael RobillardPhilosophy Department, Stone Hill College, North Easton, MA, USAMichael Robillard is an American philosopher, ethicist, and U.S. Army veteran. His writings focus primarily on veterans’ issues, civil–military relations, higher education, and restoring Western Civilization. He has held prior academic appointments at the University of Oxford, University of Notre Dame, and the U.S. Naval Academy and has been published by Oxford University Press. He is currently a professor of philosophy at Stone Hill College.
- The Causes of War CrimesJournal of Military Ethics04 March 2024By Jessica WolfendaleDepartment of Philosophy, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USAJessica Wolfendale (@JCWolfendale) is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University and holds secondary appointments in the School of Law and as a senior research associate at the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence. Her research focuses on the ethics of political violence, with a particular interest in the processes by which ordinary military personnel may come to commit atrocities such as torture. She is the author of two books and more than 40 articles and book chapters, which have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Military Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Criminal Justice Ethics, and the Case Western Journal of International Law. Her most recent book, War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame, written with Matthew Talbert (Oxford University Press, 2019), argues that war crimes are often explained by perpetrators’ beliefs, goals and values. In her current book project, Torture and Terrorism in America, she examines the toleration of torture and terrorism in the criminal justice and national security contexts.
- The Limits of Virtue: Moral Psychology and Military ConductJournal of Military Ethics04 March 2024By John M. DorisCharles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAJohn M. Doris is Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell University. He has authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior; Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency; and Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality, and co-edited The Moral Psychology Handbook and The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. His work has been funded by Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities; Princeton’s University Center for Human Values; the National Humanities Center; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Moral Injury and AtonementJournal of Military Ethics29 February 2024By David LubanGeorgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USADavid Luban is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA, and holds the Class of 1965 Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy. Recent work includes “Military Necessity: A Defense of the Marginal Interpretation,” in Eric Patterson & Marc LiVecche, eds. Returning Military Necessity to Just War Statecraft (Routledge 2024); International and Transnational Criminal Law (4th ed., Aspen 2023) (with Julie O'Sullivan, David P. Stewart, and Neha Jain); and “The Crime of Aggression: Its Nature, the Leadership Clause, and the Paradox of Immunity,” forthcoming in Tom Dannenbaum & Eliav Lieblich, eds., Elgar’s Research Handbook on International Legal Theory and War. He is currently completing a book on the moral and legal thought of Hannah Arendt.
- Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War TraditionJournal of Military Ethics23 February 2024By George R. LucasGeneva Center for Security Sector Governance, Switzerland
- Emotion, Ethics, and Military VirtuesJournal of Military Ethics23 February 2024By Mitt ReganKevin Mullaneya Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USAb Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USAc Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USAMitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Center on National Security at Georgetown Law Center. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy, and a member of an expert group advising the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on legal and ethical dimensions of AI applications in military operations. He works in the fields of international law on the use of force, international human rights law, international criminal law, and military ethics. He is the author most recently of Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and co-editor of Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict (Oxford University Press 2023).Kevin Mullaney is a Naval officer who has served on four submarines and completed seven strategic and tactical deployments. Since his selection as a Permanent Military Professor at the United States Naval Academy and completion of studies as an Industrial/Organizational psychologist, he is an active educator, leadership coach, researcher, and chair of the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department. He is one of the primary authors of the Marshall Center’s Partnership for Peace Consortium’s leadership and ethics reference curriculum and supports NATO partner countries with leadership curriculum development. His primary academic interest is the cognitive representation and experience of emotions and values and the role that these representations play in consciousness and ethical decision-making.
- Moral Injury: A TypologyJournal of Military Ethics22 February 2024By Edward BarrettStockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USAEdward Barrett is the Director of Research at the United States Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership. An Air Force ROTC scholarship graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he completed a Ph.D. in political theory at the University of Chicago; is the author of Persons and Liberal Democracy: The Ethical and Political Thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and many edited volumes, journal articles and book chapters on military ethics issues; worked for two years as speechwriter to the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Francis Cardinal George; and served in the active duty and reserve Air Force as a pilot and strategic planner.
- Francis and the Bomb: On the Immorality of Nuclear DeterrenceJournal of Military Ethics22 February 2024By Christian Nikolaus BraunDefence Studies Department, King’s College London, London, UKChristian Nikolaus Braun is a lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London. His primary area of research is the ethics of war and peace. It is his ambition to bring to bear the wisdom of the just war tradition on ethical issues that confront us today. For example, in his monograph Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition (Georgetown University Press, 2023), Christian employs a neoclassical reading of just war that is grounded in the thought of Thomas Aquinas to argue about so-called uses of force-short-of-war. His research has also been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Ethics & International Affairs, Global Studies Quarterly, International Relations, International Theory, and the Journal of International Political Theory.
- Kevlar for the Soul: Moral Theology and Force ProtectionJournal of Military Ethics12 February 2024By Marc LiVeccheProvidence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy, Annapolis, MD, USAMarc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of War, Ethics, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy; and a non-resident Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of The Good Kill: Just War & Moral Injury (Oxford University Press, 2021), and co-editor with Eric Patterson of Responsibility and Restraint: James Turner Johnson and the Just War Tradition (Stone Tower Press, 2020), and of Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft: The Principle of National Security Stewardship (Routledge, 2024).
- Teaching Virtues in the MilitaryJournal of Military Ethics05 February 2024By Nancy E. SnowDepartment of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USANancy E. Snow joined the University of Kansas (KU) Philosophy Department as a tenured full professor in late August 2022. She was formerly Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests are in virtue ethics, moral psychology, and virtue epistemology. She is the author of Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory (Routledge, 2010), Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and seventy papers on virtue and ethics more broadly. She is the co-author (with Jennifer Cole Wright and Michael T. Warren) of Understanding Virtue: Theory and Measurement (Oxford University Press, 2021), and has edited or co-edited seven volumes. She is the series editor of “The Virtues,” a fifteen-book series published by Oxford University Press. In addition to other projects, she is currently editing a book on hope, authoring a monograph on hope, and planning work on a monograph on virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.
Journal of Military Ethics
- Just War Theory for Morale and Moral Injury: Beyond Individual Resilience
- Bring Them Home: Creating a Humane and Enforceable POW Parole System
- A Framework to Integrate Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects (ELSA) in the Development and Deployment of Human Performance Enhancement (HPE) Technologies and Applications in Military Contexts
- Military AI Ethics
- Principles and Virtues in AI Ethics
- Will Algorithms Win Medals of Honor? Artificial Intelligence, Human Virtues, and the Future of Warfare
- Clothing the Naked Soldier: Virtuous Conduct on the Augmented Reality Battlefield
- There Is No Ethical Automation: Stanislav Petrov’s Ordeal by Protocol
- The Conscience of Humankind
- Soldiers and Courage: An Afghan Case
- Towards a Reflective Stance of Honor and Dignity – An Inquiry into the Use of Force by Analyzing the US Navy’s Crossing the Line Ritual
- In Between Digital War and Peace
- Amending the Military’s Rules of Engagement to Consider Blame
- Artificial Intelligence, Warfare and Ethics in India
- A Return to Right Intention in the Just War
- Delivering Military Ethics Education to the Colombian Armed Forces: Centre for Military Ethics’ Collaboration with Colombian Military Educational Facilities
- Does History Matter?
- The Warfare Ideology of Ordeal: Another Form of Just War Thinking? Theory and Practice from the Early Middle Ages
- James Turner Johnson and the Just War Tradition: Selected Essays
- An Ethics of Care Perspective on Care to Battlefield Casualties
- Supporting Ethical Decision-Making for Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- Military Medical Providers’ Postdeployment Perceptions of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- A Little Lower but Still in the Fight
- Introduction to Special Issue: Moral Virtue and Moral Injury
- Skin in the Game: Moral Exploitation and the Case for Mandatory Military Service
- The Causes of War Crimes
- The Limits of Virtue: Moral Psychology and Military Conduct
- Moral Injury and Atonement
- Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition
- Emotion, Ethics, and Military Virtues
- Moral Injury: A Typology
- Francis and the Bomb: On the Immorality of Nuclear Deterrence
- Kevlar for the Soul: Moral Theology and Force Protection
- Teaching Virtues in the Military