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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ethics of military privatization
    sub title: the US armed contractor phenomenon
  name:
    name part: Barnes, David M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate. While privatization is not a new concept for the U.S. military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial and pragmatic concerns. Missing is a critical assessment of the ethical dimensions of military privatization in general. More specifically, in light of the increased reliance upon armed contractors, it must be asked whether it is morally permissible for governments to employ them at all. To this end, this book explores four areas that highlight the ethical implications of using armed contractors, how armed contractors are distinct from soldiers and mercenaries, the commodification of force, the belligerent equality of combatants and the impact of armed contractors on the professional military. While some take an absolutist position, wanting to bar the use of private military altogether, this book reveals how these absolutist arguments are problematic and highlights that there are circumstances where turning to private force may be the only option. Recognizing that outsourcing force will continue, this book thus proposes some changes to account for the problems of commodification, belligerent equality and the challenge to the military profession. This book will be of interest to students of private security, military studies, ethics, security studies and international relations in general.
  table of contents: Close combat privatization -- The armed contractor phenomenon: a contemporary debate with a long history -- Mercenaries, soldiers, and armed contractors: an explication -- Armed military privatization and the commodification of force -- The belligerent equality of armed contractors? -- The challenge of military privatization to the military profession -- The "second contractor war" and the future of armed contractors.
  note: David M. Barnes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-215) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Private military companies
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Private security services
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Contracting out
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Privatization
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: UB149 .B37 2017
  classification: 172/.42
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Military and defence ethics
  identifier: 9781472464439
  identifier: 1472464435
  identifier: 9781315572444
  identifier: 2016010842
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160309
    record change date: 20171207102405.0
    record identifier: in00003924239