Monday, March 10, 2014

Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars

Neta C. Crawford (Boston University). Accountability for Killing (Oxford University Press, 2013).

"Given the nature of contemporary war, where military organizations—training, and the choice of weapons, doctrine, and tactics—create the conditions for systemic collateral damage, Crawford contends that assigning sole moral responsibility for systemic collateral damage to individuals is insufficient.  She develops a new theory of organizational moral agency and responsibility, and shows how the US military exercised moral agency and moral responsibility to reduce the incidence of collateral damage in America's most recent wars."
Accountability for Killing book jacket