Thoughts on individual ethics and Rules of Engagement

by - Palle Ydstebų Major, Norway

This essay is to look upon the connection between the personal ethics of the individual soldiers, and how soldiers are expected to behave in a "hostile environment", be it combat or peace-support operations. The background for this approach is the obvious gap between the ethics that was prominent in society where the formal conventions known as "the laws of war" was written, and today’s fragmented, relativistic and post-modern world.

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