Humane Warfare

by Christoph Coker and Christopher Coker

Book Overview

The decision to fight 'humanitarian wars' - such as Kosovo - and the development of technology to make war more humane, illustrates the trend in the West to try to humanise war, and thereby humanise modernity. This highly controversial and cutting-edge book asks whether the attempt to make war 'virtual' or 'virtuous' can succeed and whether the west is deluding itself (not its enemies) in thinking that war can ever be made more humane.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415255767
• ISBN13: 9780415255769
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"