The intractable nature of urban operations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610795 |
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| Authors | Alice Hills (0000-0003-4923-0571, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-120 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Civil Wars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8249 • E-ISSN: 1743-968X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698240108402471 |
| OpenAlex | W2092936569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
There is a need to reconcile the increasingly restrictive legal and moral framework of contemporary British operations with what we know of the nature of urban operations. The analytical and ethical challenges of urban operations are many but three specific issues are identified here. First, urban operations lack a theoretical framework. Second, they present their greatest challenge at the strategic and policy levels. Third, the central question confronting leaders is less about prediction than about reconciling an increasingly restrictive legal and moral framework with what we know of the nature of such operations. This last challenge, the focus of attention here, is discussed by reference to recent operations and to the use of weaponry such as novel explosives. The article concludes that humanitarianism and urban operations are probably irreconcilable
Environmental ethics · Focus (optics · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Highly cited | No |
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