Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos

by 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 justifications for killing in war? And crucially, is there a point at which battlefield violence becomes so one-directional as to undermine the moral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198851464
• ISBN13: 9780198851462
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"