Asymmetric killing : risk avoidance, just war, and the warrior ethos / Neil C. Renic.
This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence-warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the...
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