ethics of warfare

Should robot soldiers kill—or be killed?

Karl D. Stephan | 07 June 2013 |

tags: ethics of warfare, human rights, weapons

The development of drones and robots who decide whom to kill and when worries the United Nations and human rights activists.

An arms craze: drones to lasers

Paul Rogers | 03 June 2013 |

tags: arms race, drones, weapons

The United States, Israel and other military powers continue to seek the perfect weapon, from drones to lasers. They forget how the story ends.

The empathy gap

John Tirman | 02 April 2013 |

tags: Afghanistan, drones, Iraq

Where is the sympathy for the civilian victims of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Hellfire, morality and strategy

George Friedman | 20 February 2013 |

tags: drones, ethics of warfare, US

The use of drones may be legal under international war, but it is leading the US into unknown territory.

Let’s talk about just war

Nathaniel Peters | 08 February 2013 |

tags: book reviews, just war, US foreign policy

In a country where opinion oscillates between the extremes of realism and pacifism, learning the history of the just war tradition is important.

Why men fight

Robert R. Reilly | 26 January 2013 |

tags: ethics of warfare, women in military

Will women in front-line combat duty change the way men behave in combat?

The death of a dictator and the death of an ambassador

George Friedman | 19 September 2012 |

tags: foreign policy, Libya, Stratfor

If you wage war for moral ends, you are morally bound to manage the consequences.

Free speech under siege

Colleen Carroll Campbell | 04 August 2012 |

tags: freedom of speech, same-sex marriage

Today's gay-marriage movement seems far more eager to silence its critics than debate them.

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