The JOINT
SERVICES CONFERENCE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Examines
Pre-emptive War
Hilton
Springfield Hotel,
Dr. Jeff McCausland,
“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
Pre-emption and the
Just War Tradition
Dr.
“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,
Before, During and
After
“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
Pre-emptive War:
Some Philosophical Analysis
“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
Some New
Thinking About the Profession
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
“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
Contemporary
Applications
“Pragmatism and Preemption: Just War Theory May Not Be the Law, but It Is a Good Idea”
Dr. Steven Lee,
“Pre-emption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq”
Chaplain (Colonel) Franklin Eric Wester, US Army
More on the
Evolving Doctrine of Pre-emption
“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
Intelligence Ethics Education
Discussion of intelligence ethics education with
Prof. Jan Goldman, Joint Military Intelligence
College. Sponsored by the Intelligence Ethics
Section of
Moderator: Jean Maria Arrigo, Ph.D.