This book debates competing approaches to ethical decision-making for members of the armed forces of liberal democratic states.
In this volume, four prominent thinkers propose and debate competing approaches to ethical decision-making for military personnel. Deane-Peter Baker presents and expounds the -Ethical Triangulation- model, an ethical decision-making method he has employed through much of his career as an applied military ethicist. Rufus Black advocates for a natural law-based approach, one which has heavily influenced the framework formally adopted by the Australian Defence Force. Roger Herbert outlines the -Moral Deliberation Roadmap-, the moral reasoning framework recently adopted by the US Naval Academy. Iain King then sets out a model of quasi-utilitarian decision-making developed in several post-conflict settings and refined at the UK-s Royal College of Defence Studies. After the opening chapters in which each author outlines their favoured decision-making approa
