Degrade and Destroy: Winning the War against DAESH
* * * This blog originally appeared on Defence-in-Depth, a research blog from the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London * * *…
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America in a Time of War: Interpreting Orlando
Dr. Christopher McIntosh, Bard College As the recent events in Orlando recede into the past—a vicious attack on a nightclub by an individual…
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Generational War and the Illusion of Winning
Daniel R. Brunstetter, University of California, Irvine In 2003, George W. Bush declared victory in the war to oust Saddam Hussein. “The battle…
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Moral Victories Workshop Talks with Martin Cook
As part of our Moral Victories Workshop Talks series, we ask Martin Cook of the US Naval War College “What does it mean…
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Moral Victories Workshop Talks with Daniel Brunstetter
As part of our Moral Victories Workshop Talks series, we ask Daniel Brunstetter of the University of California, Irvine “What does it mean…
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Moral Victories Workshop Talks with Chris Brown
As part of our Moral Victories Workshop Talks series, we ask Chris Brown of the London School of Economics “What does it mean…
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Moral Victories Workshop Talks with Beatrice Heuser
As part of our Moral Victories Workshop Talks series, we ask Beatrice Heuser of University of Reading “What does it mean to win…
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Another year, another general and another non-victory in Afghanistan
James Michael Page and John Williams[1] We are, once again, witnessing a changing of the guard at the head of the military missions…
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Military Ethics Today
The Moral Victories team has recently returned from the annual convention of the International Society for Military Ethics (ISME), which was held in…
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New publication from Moral Victories
Andrew Hom of University of Glasgow, has published a new paper titled Angst springs eternal: Dangerous times and the dangers of timing the…
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Cian O’Driscoll in the Ethics of International Relations Panel Discussion
Cian O’Driscoll takes on the topic of “Ethics in International Relations: Intervention, Just War, Human, Rights, and Migration” during a panel discussion held at…
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Moral Victories Workshop Talks with David Whetham
As part of our Moral Victories Workshop Talks series, we ask David Whetham of King’s College “What does it mean to win a…
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Cian O’Driscoll Interview at The Bologna Institute for Policy Research
Cian O’Driscoll answers three questions in an interview with The Bologna Institute for Policy Research at SAIS Europe: How has the conception of victory…
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Winning wars justly?
Winning in war doesn’t seem to have much to do with moral theory. Victory in war can certainly be justified, but such theorizing…
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The War on Terror: still a losing proposition
In February 2015, President Obama released a new National Security Strategy (NSS), sounding several notes of improvement and cautious optimism for the United States…
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The Ethics of Insurgency and a Close Look at Just Guerrilla Warfare
Facing contemporary asymmetric armed conflict, professors, lawyers, pundits and presidents are preoccupied with a single question: How should state armies wage just war against…
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Remote killing and victory in war
I have noted elsewhere that while drones (or RPAS – Remotely Piloted Air Vehicles – as the military prefer to call them) receive a…
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