JOINT SERVICES
CONFERENCE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
2005
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Preemption
THE CONFERENCE
Dr.
Dr.
This meeting's
undergraduate panel fulfilled the promise of last year's inaugural panel and
confirmed our commitment to make it a permanent part of
The Papers
“Pre-emptive War
as a Manifestation of Hegemonic Power: Rome, Britain, and the US”
Dr. Paul F. Robinson,
“This is no
Petty Case of Right and Wrong”
Colonel Reed R.
Bonadonna,
“Conceptualizing
Pre-emptive War in Light of Battered Spouse Self-Defense”
Lieutenant Commander Michael Hallett, USNR,
Dr. Vijay Mascarenhas, Metro
“Pre-emption,
Uncertainty, and Jus ad Bellum”
Major Jesse W. Zuck, US Military Academy (paper to be read
by Major Michael Jaskowiec)
“Is the Doctrine
of Pre-emption a Legitimate Element of the Just War Tradition?”
Dr. Robert G. Kennedy,
“Birth of a
Nation: Planning for Regime Change Operations”
Dr. Timothy L. Challans, School of Advanced Military Studies
(SAMS)
“Obeying Orders Under Duress: A
Proposed Role for Ethics Committees in the Military”
Dr. Jan W. Wojcik,
“Warrior Transitions:
From Combat to Social Contract”
Dr. Shannon E. French, US Naval Academy
“What’s in a Word?
Getting Clear on What We Mean by ‘Pre-emption’”
Lieutenant Colonel John
Mark Mattox, US Army
“What’s Wrong with Pre-emptive War?”
Dr. Whitley R. P. Kaufman, University of
Massachusetts-Lowell
“Three Philosophical
Difficulties with ‘Pre-emptive War’”
Dr. James Stieb,
“Pre-emptive War
and the Epistemological Dimension of the Morality of War”
Dr. Randall R. Dipert, University
at
Captain Marc O. Hedahl, US Air Force
Dr. Lawrence A. Lengbeyer, US Naval Academy
Major Mark S. Swiatek, US Air Force
“The Moral
Inequality of Professional Officers”
Dr. Roger Wertheimer
Cadet Cassandra Keyes, US
“Anticipatory
(Pre-emptive) Self-defense: The Need for a Modern Approach”
Cadet Sarah Champion,
“Hosting Terror:
How the Presence of Terror Groups in a State Affects Interstate Relations”
Cadet Jacob M. Brady, US
“Justified
Preemption and Extreme Circumstances”
Cadet Ryan K. Stanley,
“The Anthropic Prohibition on Preemption”
Midshipman Kurt W.
“Guidelines for
Lasting Peace”
Cadet Tony Gregg, US
“Ethics of
Detention and Interrogation”
Lieutenant Colonel
Tony Pfaff, US Army (paper to be read by Dr.
“American
Pre-emption and the Moral Prescriptions Within
Trinitarian and Nontrinitarian War”
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Scott Westhusing, US Military
Academy (paper to be read by Major Mike Saxon)
Major
“Pragmatism and
Preemption: Just War Theory May Not Be the Law, but It Is a Good Idea”
Adam Weinstein,
Dr. Steven Lee,
“Pre-emption and
Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq”
Chaplain (Colonel) Franklin Eric Wester, US Army
“The Special
(Moral) Circumstances of Preventive War”
Dr. Stephen E. Lammers,
“Humanitarian
Intervention as a Pre-emptive Military Action:
Issues to be Addressed”
Dr. Joanne K. Lekea, Hellenic Air
Force Academy/University of
“Reevaluating
the Standing of Statehood in Evaluating Pre-emptive Wars”
Dr.
“You Say
‘Pre-Emptive’, I Say ‘Precipitive…”
Major Daniel Wetmore, US Air Force
(Facilitated by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs)
“Ethical Issues in
Intelligence: A Practitioner's Perspective”
Major
“Ethics, Intelligence, and
Democracy”
Reuben E. Brigity
II, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Government & Politics,
“The Ethics of
Record Keeping in Intelligence”
Lawrence Rockwood, California
State University at San Marcos & International
Museum of Human Rights at San Diego
The Business Meeting
The members of the
Lieutenant
Colonel Bill Rhodes (Ret), USAF Representative and Chairman
HQ USAFA/DFPY
Colonel Daniel Zupan,
Department of English
Dr.
Fran Harbour, Civilian Representative
Dept. of Public/Int’l Affairs
LCDR
Dale Bateman, USCG Representative
Department
of Humanities (DH)
US
Captain
Robert Schoultz, USN Representative
Director,
Character Development
Colonel
Jean-Luc Milot, Canadian Forces Representative
Director of Defence
Ethics,
NDHQ CRS
MGen Pearkes Bldg
101 Colonel By drive
Lieutenant
Colonel Mike Campbell, USMC Representative
(LTC
Campbell was recovering from surgery and was represented at the meeting by LTC
John Rupp.)
Bateman, Harbour, Rupp, and Zupan come up for reelection in
2006.
The content of the meeting follows.
1. We are very
grateful to Dr.
2. The board members
agreed to provide names of people from their institutions who will serve as
referees for next year's
3. The board agreed
in principle to support in some way the APA's
Committee on Public Philosophy. The
details have yet to be worked out. Dr.
Roger Wertheimer is our point of contact for this initiative.
4. The board agreed
to send out this year's ballot electronically sometime after the conclusion of
the conference. We felt it appropriate
to do so in order to give us time to respond to
5. The board agreed
once again to review the status of
6. We agreed to seek
a parent organization that could take on much of the administrative work of
a. The Executive
Board and voting participants of
b. We will change the
name of the conference to eliminate any references to the Joint Services, thus
clearly indicating our non-DOD status.
c. The parent
organization would finance the travel of the chairman whenever the chairman is
not part of an institution that supports his or her travel.
7. Many participants
expressed a desire for more time to network at the conference. In response, we will make Thursday's lunch a 2-hour
period. We will look for other ways to
provide more time for participants to meet each other and discuss the important
issues of the day. The board recognizes,
that is, that much of the benefit of such conferences comes by way of informal
discussion and establishing of friendships and contacts.
8. Responding to
concerns that the presentations became somewhat redundant, we have decided to
change the format for next year's
9. We will accept
panel proposals for
10. In order to
provide more time for discussion of presentations, we decided to limit each
presenter to 15 minutes. This will allow
for much better question and answer interchange.
11. The initial
deadline for submissions will be
Special Notes
We want to thank CAPT Bob Schoultz,
Colonel Kenneth Strain, and Lieutenant Colonel Mike Campbell for all their hard
work, insight, and professionalism while they served on the Executive
Committee. They did much to enhance this
important conference. We must offer a
special note of gratitude to Dr. Carl Ficarrotta who has sustained this
conference for many years as our program director. He has been the driving force behind JSCOPE,
and we shall miss his wit, intelligence, compassion, and professionalism. Perhaps now, unburdened by the
responsibilities of running the program, he will grace us with a presentation
at an upcoming conference. Thanks, Carl.
Submissions for
Thanks to all those who made