1) In this week’s reading, Marshall explains several forms of Christian war ethics: just war theory, pacifism, just insurrection, and nonviolent resistance. Personally, I admire the pacifism and nonviolent resistance as it seeks to emulate Christ. Knocking a violent system of balance through opposing violence with non-violent forms of defense (p. 153) seems to me a more effective statement then even pacifism. However, as realist and as a member of a family with several military veterans I appreciate the construction of ethical parameters when engaging in war.
Ethical Dilemma: Discovered by Unarmed Combatants During Operation Red Wing, a reconnaissance mission partaken by a group of U.S. Navy Seal Team 10, Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy and his team were spotted by three civilians. LT Murphy was immediately asked the most discomforting question of a young Leader’s career, “what do we do?” Considering the question in accordance with similar events and laws concerning the Law of Warfare, I often ask myself what I would do if I was behind enemy lines and my positioned was uncovered by unarmed civilians. I would allow the civilians to go free and immediately attempt to return to my operational outpost because killing innocent people is against the law, unethical, and counterproductive to the overall goal within the Global War on Terrorism.
The case that Tara McKelvey is making in “Arming Syrian rebels: Where the US went wrong” is well supported by facts and experts opinions. The readers can clearly conclude that the US train-and-equip program for Syrian rebels came late and was not serious enough, which led to it being
Some Experts’ Opinions You might see him on Fox news or maybe shouting in a courtroom, the adjunct professor from Georgetown, Dr. Michael Sheuer, or simply, “Mike”, has major concerns about the way American’s foreign policy has been handled in recent years. The choice isn 't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war , in this age of warfare, the purpose of conflicts that our leaders drag us into, become uncertain as the deaths multiply. Mike has a valid point. During his career running operations in the CIA, the Bin Laden case is a standout, so it is important that people of opposing views at least take a minute to consider his steady, keen outcry against the way American leaders deal with foreign allies.
In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, a young Jewish boy named Reuven meets a hasidic Jew by the name of Danny. These two boys have many similarities and differences, but what is perhaps the most important is the question of their future. Reuven has long wanted to be a rabbi once he grew up but for Danny, it wasn’t so simple, his future was chosen for him by his father, who was the Tzaddik of that particular Hasidic Jewish community. This means that Danny is supposed to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the next Tzaddik. While Danny has been trained to be a Tzaddik his entire life, only Reuven would come out to be a suitable religious leader.
Author (0000) aims to examine Army Doctrinal Reference Publication (ADRP) 6-22, Army Leadership in terms of how defines leadership and how leadership can address and handle tough issues such as integrating women into combat military occupational specialties (MOS). The central purpose of the theory is to identify manners in which doctrine in regards to leadership limits autonomy in developing a leadership style that is more accommodating to the organizational culture and norm. The conclusion of this review is that leadership in the Army is very narrow and is individually tailored for a male Soldier. Evidence of this is material published in the Army don a male, equipment and uniform is designed for male that makes it difficult for leaders to
All three of the films effectively portray Geneva convention protocol. In the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, the Japanese head of the camp finally agrees to adhere to the rule of no officers doing manual labor. This is clearly highlighted in article 22, paragraph one of the Geneva Convention. In the film Stalag 17, provisions can be seen in Esgain and Solf’s writing. It is established that POWs should be held in adequate and sanitary housing (Esgain and Solf, 581).
How would you feel if you lived in a country that made you fight in a war at the age of 12 and you'll either get forgiven or send to jail? You should be sent to jail if you joined for fun and liked killing. But if you joined to protect others and to do it for a good reason then you should be forgiven. I think kids should be forgiven because maybe they were forced to, they did it for protection, and they did it so they won’t hurt them or kill them, and because they needed a shelter, food and because they were poor. One reason I think child soldiers should be forgiven is because maybe they were forced to join and kill.
When you picture war, what do you see? Is it people with tanks and Ak-47s fighting each other? Maybe adults in camo fighting in the desert? Or perhaps even an image from your Call of Duty video game pops into your head. But what most people don’t imagine is children, ages 9-15, fighting each other and dying at the hands of guns and other weapons.
In 2003, the U.S Invaded Iraq and the war began, where the prison Abu Ghraib was established. There, a series of human rights violations would occur, and innocent Iraqi women and children would be forced to endure various forms of abuse. Despite their being written Reports of human rights violations, they went ignored by the government and the public for several months. However, over one hundred different
Many young children under aged have been taken in by the government. They are being held captive tell they are drugged enough and brainwashed to go out and kill or to be killed. They are forced to train to kill under the influence of drugs and they are hardly aware of what they or doing. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because of the absents of their minds and them not being able to process what they are doing. These children are often seen as targets because they are under aged and not able to take responsibility for their actions so they are targeted to be able to kill without punishment.
Introduction The Nigerian diplomatic service was established by the Tafawa Balewa-led federal government in 1957, three years before Nigeria’s independence, to prepare the nation for its foreign representation after independence. ( Orjiako, 2010:96) It started as the External Affairs division of the Prime Minister’s office, under the supervision of a British colonial official, Mr. E. K. Williams. (Fafowora, 2008).
Introduction On October 1st 1960 , British rule over Nigeria as a colony ended, as well as most of its official structure. Nigerian leaders were left with the task of taking up the leadership of the Nigerian people from the British with a promise of democratic rule; however within fifteen years after independence various institutions experienced great changes bringing great instability and uncertainty to the newly founded government. Northern and Southern regions of Nigeria both felt the impacts in education, politics, religion and ethnically. This causes one to wonder what the British Imperialistic government did differently, and why the difference between the Southern and Northern region became so evident in the fifteen years after independence.
“Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk” (24) illustrates the internal governmental struggle in Nigeria during this book and a result of the “bloody coups of the sixties” (24). Nigeria is industrialized due to colonization of the British (Hurst) and is shown to be true as Papa owns a factory and newspaper branch known as “the Standard” (24). The industrialization of Nigeria is a direct effect from the colonization of Africa during the majority of the twentieth century. The colonization and the independence of Nigeria from Britain in 1960 led to an “ethnic tension in
102-31-653 Child Soldier 's and the Moral Dilemma The popular saying, "all is fair in love and war" has been used through time by writers, poets, and artists of different concentrations; although for this paper "war" is all we need. For an expression that has been repeated through time by some of earth 's finest, how much accuracy lies behind it? In times of war, every and anything is done in order to accomplish a political goal. Leaders often overlook the moral dilemma of certain actions in war, especially if it yields successful results.
