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    Naked Soldiers and the Principle of Discrimination.Stephen Deakin - 2014 - Journal of Military Ethics 13 (4):320-330.
    Robert Graves's First World War story in his autobiography Goodbye to All That, narrating his refusal to kill an enemy soldier bathing naked on the battlefield, has been made famous in the field of military ethics by Michael Walzer in his Just and Unjust Wars. The story raises the issue of whether soldiers should be granted immunity when behaving in an ‘un-warlike’ manner. It also relates to the growing understanding in military ethics that only soldiers who pose a direct threat (...)
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    Mercy killing in battle.Stephen Deakin - 2013 - Journal of Military Ethics 12 (2):162 - 180.
    Mercy killing in battle is an illegal activity, yet, the evidence suggests, it happens on battlefields the world over and it has probably done so throughout human history. This may be a ?silent? part of the battlefield that few survivors wish to remember or to report subsequently. The practice is illegal, yet it raises difficult, perhaps sometimes impossible, ethical problems. A framework derived from the ethos of the just war tradition is developed here to analyse and to evaluate such battlefield (...)
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    How Is a Man to Decide? Unjust Combatants, Duress and McMahan’s Killing in War.Stephen Deakin - 2019 - Journal of Military Ethics 18 (2):110-128.
    ABSTRACTJeff McMahan’s much-discussed work Killing in War is an important part of the revisionist school of just war studies. This paper avoids discussion of McMahan’s use of human rights and exami...
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    Killing Your Own: Confronting Desertion and Cowardice in the British Army During the Two World Wars.Stephen Deakin - 2018 - Journal of Military Ethics 17 (1):54-71.
    ABSTRACTMilitary units can become to some extent self-governing in war-time battle. At times, they may take the discipline of their soldiers into their own hands and such discipline may be severe. This paper examines incidents in the British military, in both World Wars, where British soldiers were killed by their comrades because they would not fight in the heat of battle. The judicial execution by the military authorities of deserters in the First World War led to much controversy in Britain. (...)
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    Wise men and shepherds: A case for taking non-lethal action against civilians who discover hiding soldiers.Stephen Deakin - 2011 - Journal of Military Ethics 10 (2):110-119.
    Soldiers hiding in enemy territory that are discovered by civilians face acute ethical problems as to what to do about them. The law of armed conflict forbids harming civilians, yet if they are released they may well betray the soldiers and alert enemy forces that will kill or capture the soldiers. This is not just a theoretical problem; there are recent documented accounts of British and American soldiers who have found themselves in such a position and who have died because (...)
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    Britain's defence and cosmopolitan ideals.Stephen Deakin - 2010 - Sandhurst: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
    Cosmopolitanism is a stream of opinion that has at its heart the ideal of a united humanity protected by a universal morality codified in human rights and international legal standards supervised by international organisations. These views are powerful ones that are recognisable in many policies, institutions and initiatives around the world. This paper examines cosmopolitanism and its influence on British military policy.
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