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Importance of Ethics in Counterinsurgency Operations

Importance of Ethics in Counterinsurgency Operations

Archer, Tony

Paperback

General LawInternational RelationsMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 1288253826
ISBN13: 9781288253821
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The intent behind this paper was to develop a set of key principles that would support both planners and operators in the conduct of counterinsurgency operations. This set of principles would also be morally acceptable on an international level, which would not only support the conduct of operations but would lead to enhanced legitimacy and acceptance. The development of these principles is important as the current methods that the Coalition is employing in both Iraq and Afghanistan are not only ineffective, but they are increasing the rift in relations between the West and the Middle East. Prior to commencing this paper I expected that I would find similarities in the COIN principles, which various military organizations were employing around the globe. I also believed that many of these organizations would have forgotten lessons of the past and tried to re-invent the wheel as they were involved in a new counterinsurgency battle. Although it was my intention to establish some universal morals by examining Western and Islamic cultures, I did not believe that there would be a great deal of commonality between the two. The method of analysis that was employed to conduct this paper primarily involved the qualitative analysis of ethics/morality and counterinsurgency. After developing a set of ethical principles and analyzing them against Kant'scategorical imperative to confirm universality, these principles were then combined with the proposed COIN principles to develop a set of ethically sound principles for COIN. These principles were then compared against two case studies to confirm their employability. The results of the analysis were a set of morally sound COIN principles that provided positive results when compared against the case studies of Algeria and Malaya. These ethically sound COIN principles were then utilized to provide several recommendations for the conduct of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The major inconsistency between the hypothesis and the re

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