TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osiel,Mark
TI  - Obeying orders: atrocity, military discipline, and the law of war 
SN  - 076580798X
U1  - 345.04 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - Superior orders (Criminal law)
KW  - Military offenses
KW  - Military discipline
KW  - War crimes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-390) and index; Obedience to Superior Orders -- Virtues and Vices of Military Obedience -- The Law of Military Obedience -- The Uncertain Scope of "Manifest" Illegality -- Problems with Prevailing Law -- Sparse and Unsettled Rules -- The Weightlessness of Moral Gravity -- Irregularity amidst Procedural Formality -- Atrocities "Vanish" by Verbal Artistry -- Views of Atrocity in Legal Theory: Positivist, Naturalist and Postmodernist -- Individual Responsibility for Systemic Horrors? -- Averting Atrocity -- Roots of Atrocity and Law's Response -- Legal Norms and Social Practices in Military Life -- Cold Hearts and the Heat of Battle: Atrocity from Above or from Below? -- Permutations on Perversity: Atrocity by Connivance and Brutalization -- Social Bases of Military Obedience -- Why Do Men Fight? -- Morale and Morality: An Uneasy Relationship -- Freedom and Constraint in Military Life and Law -- Rules vs. Standards in Military Law -- Martial Courage as Moral Judgment -- Promoting Practical Judgment -- What Soldiers Know -- Misreading Orders Morally -- Disobedience as Creative "Compliance" -- Living with Lawyers -- Applying Applied Ethics, or Where the Rubber Hits the Road
ER  -