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020			_a076580798X
020			_a 9780765807984 (paperback)
040			_cChanthyE
082	0	4	_a345.04
100	1		_aOsiel, Mark, _cauthor
245	1	0	_aObeying orders : _batrocity, military discipline, and the law of war / _cMark J. Osiel.
260			_aNew Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : _bTransaction Publishers, _cc2005
300			_ax, 398 pages ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-390) and index.
505			_aObedience 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.
650		0	_aSuperior orders (Criminal law)
650		0	_aMilitary offenses
650		0	_aMilitary discipline
650		0	_aWar crimes
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