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Book Synopsis Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces? by : Brian Rappert
Download or read book Non-lethal Weapons as Legitimising Forces? written by Brian Rappert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.
Book Synopsis The Future of Non-lethal Weapons by : Nick Lewer
Download or read book The Future of Non-lethal Weapons written by Nick Lewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore the increase in interest in non-lethal weapons. Such devices have meant that many armed forces and law enforcement agencies are able to act against undesirables without being accused of acting in an inhumane way. Topics for discussion in this volume include: an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons; emerging non-lethal technologies; military and police operational deployment of non-lethal weapons; a scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of non-lethal weapons; changes in international law needed to take into account non-lethal technologies; developments in genomics leading to new chemical incapacitants; implications for arms control and proliferation; the role of non-lethal weapons in human rights abuses; conceptual, theoretical and analytical perspectives on the nature of non-lethal weapons development.
Book Synopsis Non-Lethal Weapons by : David A. Koplow
Download or read book Non-Lethal Weapons written by David A. Koplow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, military and law enforcement authorities have found themselves constrained by inadequate weaponry. An emerging category of 'non-lethal weapons' carries promise for resolving this dilemma, proffering new capabilities for disabling opponents without inflicting death or permanent injury. This array of much more sophisticated technologies is being developed, and could emerge for use by soldiers and police in the near future. These augmented capabilities carry both immense promise and grave risks: they expand the power of law enforcement and military units, enabling them to accomplish assigned missions with greater finesse and reduced casualties. But they may also be misused - increasing maligned applications and inspiring leaders to over-rely upon a myth of 'bloodless combat'. This book explores the emerging world of non-lethal weapons by examining a series of case studies - recent real-world scenarios from five confrontations around the world where the availability of a modern arsenal might have made a difference.
Book Synopsis Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities by : Graham T. Allison
Download or read book Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities written by Graham T. Allison and published by Council on Foreign Relations. This book was released on 2004 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By providing an intermediate option between "don't shoot" and "shoot," the Task Force observes, nonlethal weapons (NLW) have enormous potential in the new military roles of modern combat. Wider integration of existing types of NLW into the U.S. Army and Marine Corps could have helped to reduce the damage done by widespread looting and sabotage after the cessation of major conflict in Iraq. This Independent Task Force report on Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities finds that incorporating these and additional forms of nonlethal capabilities into the equipment, training, and doctrine of the armed services could substantially improve U.S. military effectiveness.
Book Synopsis Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts by : Douglas C. Lovelace
Download or read book Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts written by Douglas C. Lovelace and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 'Non-Lethal' Weapons by : Neil Davison
Download or read book 'Non-Lethal' Weapons written by Neil Davison and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techniques for reducing casualties, torture devices, tools for conflict resolution, or the technology of political control? Ostensibly the major impetus for the development of 'non-lethal' weapons has been to apply force without causing permanent injury or death, thereby reducing the need for lethal force. This book sheds light on a more complex story, with varied drivers, contradictory policy, premeditated and unanticipated results, and challenges to social, ethical and legal norms. With particular attention to the ongoing development of drugs, lasers, microwaves, and acoustics as incapacitating weapons, it provides an up-to-date analysis of the key technologies and weapons programmes, and highlights the major policy issues and concerns. There has been much conjecture about new and emerging 'non-lethal' weapons. This book separates what is known from the speculation about developments at this intersection of technology and weapons development.
Book Synopsis Biological Effects of Non-lethal Weapons by : Michael R. Murphy
Download or read book Biological Effects of Non-lethal Weapons written by Michael R. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Military peace keeping, humanitarian efforts, and missions other-than-war have become increasingly common. In such operations, many dangers exist to the troops, yet the use of lethal force is often not justified or acceptable. This conference in concerned with new non-lethal options for applying military force. This new requirement has been addressed by the United States Department of Defense in a policy statement for Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs), in which such weapons are defined as 'weapon systems explicitly designed to incapacitate personnel or materiel while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury, and undesired damage to property and the environment' (DoD Policy Directive 3000.3). The development and fielding of new weapons that fit this definition will require much work using many approaches. I will focus on the biological effects of NLWs"--Introduction
Book Synopsis Modern Non-Lethal Weapons: Concepts, Application, Legal and Moral Perspective by : U. C. Jha
Download or read book Modern Non-Lethal Weapons: Concepts, Application, Legal and Moral Perspective written by U. C. Jha and published by Vij Books India. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Lethal Weapons offer viable options for addressing challenging scenarios in modern-day conflicts including peacekeeping operations, where the objective is to accomplish the mission and protect the force when lethal force is either unnecessary or even detrimental. Today, several states are actively engaged in countering terrorism, grey zone conflicts and armed conflicts resulting in high casualty rates for both sides. It would be valuable for the political and military leaders to consider the merits of Non-Lethal Weapons which are less likely to kill or to cause serious bodily injury than a conventional weapon, i.e., guns, missiles, bombs, yet help achieve the desired goal. Non-Lethal Weapons can include chemical and biological agents, electroshock devices, acoustic devices, optical munitions, blunt or rubber projectiles, traction modifiers, nets or rapid-hardening rigid foam, microwave technologies, noxious smells, and acoustical interference technologies. The book looks at CALM (concepts, application, legal and moral) issues of use of non-lethal weapons in the current context. Besides the history, concept and design of various modern non-lethal weapons, it covers application for military and United Nations Peacekeeping operations in detail. The ongoing debate about legal and moral aspects of the use of force, in general, and non-lethal weapons, in particular, brings in a 360 perspective on the issue of non-lethal weapons before moving forward to exploring the field of neuro weapons and their implication.
Book Synopsis A New Form of Warfare by : Malcolm Dando
Download or read book A New Form of Warfare written by Malcolm Dando and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's industrialised powers wish to deploy military forces in peacekeeping operations without incurring or causing casualties. But Dando argues that the deployment of non-lethal weapons could raise many difficult questions and bring new forms of warfare.
Book Synopsis Non-Lethal Weapons: A Place in the Tool Bag by :
Download or read book Non-Lethal Weapons: A Place in the Tool Bag written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Today's changing world, the military is facing challenges and missions that require different solutions and approaches. The one size fits all philosophy, does not necessarily work in a world where it is sometimes hard to distinguish the non-belligerents from the belligerents. In this era of uncertain and confusing conflict, non-lethal weapons technology offers the military and political leaders an option between doing nothing and using deadly force. They are not the solution or panacea to all problems and crises in the twenty-first century. They are an option and enhance capabilities. Their utility is the subject of much debate because of the concerns they raise with rules of engagement, risk, legal, and ethical issues. These concerns notwithstanding, non-lethal weapons have value in today's and tomorrow's military operations. They are tools that can provide a synergistic effect when used by the operational commander in conjunction with traditional forces and weapons. They are not stand-alone technology that will supplant the lethal technologies of today, but an augmenting and enabling force.
Book Synopsis Disarming Intervention by : Seantel Anaïs
Download or read book Disarming Intervention written by Seantel Anaïs and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-lethal weapons take many forms – from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices – which their proponents argue are ethical, legal, and humane. Social scientists, historians, legal scholars, and activists have long challenged the use of non-lethal weapons in policing and war. Until now, little scholarly attention has been paid to the social, historical, and legal relations that animate the concept of non-lethality, nor is there a comprehensive account of how the concept has achieved social and political acceptance. Disarming Intervention tells the story of how the concept of non-lethality emerged in a series of nineteenth-century legal codes that governed the conduct of international hostilities, and how it continued to legitimate US-led armed conflicts as ethical, legal, and humane throughout the twentieth century. Seantel Anaïs unpacks these issues by tracing the social, historical, and legal legitimization of non-lethality in the United States and in armed interventions abroad. Disarming Intervention shows in detail how it came to be that an idea forever changed the relationship between contemporary weapons of armed conflict and war’s constitutive objective to produce irreversible injury and death.
Book Synopsis Non-Lethal Weapons: Considerations for the Joint Force Commander by :
Download or read book Non-Lethal Weapons: Considerations for the Joint Force Commander written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allure of non-lethal weapons has continued to grow and will only accelerate as the United States continues to confront complex irregular combat scenarios, often in urban environments. Despite their promise, numerous concerns about their development and use have been raised by persons both in and out of the military. While all the concerns deserve consideration, this paper discusses the issues raised primarily by people outside the military. The concerns raised need to be addressed by everyone in the non-lethal weapons community, from the most senior policy-makers to the most junior soldier employing them. The paper focuses on what the operational commander can do to attend to potential complaints against non-lethal weapons. It is the author's assertion that well-constructed Rules of Engagement (ROE) governing non-lethal weapons use can be issued by the Joint Forces Commander that ensure the accomplishment of military objectives, minimize collateral damage, including non-combatant fatalities, and assuage the objections raised to their use. He will propose some general guidelines for the operational-level planner to follow when developing ROE for the use of non-lethal weapons to minimize the concerns raised and to help ensure the legitimacy of both the weapons employed and the U.S. military.
Book Synopsis Nonlethal Weapons by : Robert J. Bunker
Download or read book Nonlethal Weapons written by Robert J. Bunker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to promote understanding of and research into a new category of weapons, designated "nonlethal" by the military services. These weapons are also classified as "less-than-lethal" or "less-lethal" by law enforcement agencies. National security experts consider these weapons increasingly important in the post-war Cold War era. This type of weapon has been used throughout history, but was given new emphasis during the Vietnam War era. Law enforcement agencies and Army national guard units relying upon traditional forms of politico-military force were ineffective in countering US domestic civil unrest. As similar types of conflict, now many magnitudes greater, seem to dominate international politics since the end of the Cold War, this type of weapon takes on increasing importance. -- page ix.
Book Synopsis The Utility of Non-Lethal Weapons in Large-Scale Conflict by : Benjamin K. Barrett
Download or read book The Utility of Non-Lethal Weapons in Large-Scale Conflict written by Benjamin K. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing involvement of United States armed forces in Military Operations Other Than War has intensified calls for weapons that would fill the gap between Flexible Deterrent Options and application of lethal force. The effort and expense required to develop and field these proposed non-lethal weapons requires that their utility throughout the spectrum of conflict be considered. This paper presents an analysis of the positive and negative impacts of non-lethal weapons on three operational functions: (command and control, fires, and intelligence). The possible restrictions current international law would place on the use of these proposed weapons are also discussed. The analysis suggests that non-lethal weapons could create so many difficulties for the operational commander that their utility in large scale conflict would be minimal, and that scarce resources and budgets might be better directed towards increasing the accuracy of current precision-guided weapons.
Book Synopsis Non-lethal Weapons by : Mark D. Henderson
Download or read book Non-lethal Weapons written by Mark D. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic sanctions and embargo are long accepted means of coercion used to guide the actions of nation states. Numerous historical examples with varying degrees of success indicate that Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) are a necessary part of sanction and embargo enforcement. With the line between war and peace becoming increasingly vague, U.S. forces face a growing number of operations which require the controlled application of force, and among these are MIO. Restraint, born of moral and ethical considerations, coupled with the need to maintain public support for military action, has brought a growing emphasis on the development and employment of non-lethal weapons (NLW). These weapons bridge the gap between presence with the threat of force and the application of deadly force. Non-lethal weapons offer key advantages to the Operational Commander which warrant their consideration in the planning and execution of any military mission. As a measure between force and no force, NLW are ideally suited to missions between peace and war. When applied with rules of engagement which are clear, concise, and mission appropriate, NLW provide increased flexibility and enhanced mission effectiveness to forces conducting MIO.
Book Synopsis Rules of Engagement for Non-Lethal Weapons by :
Download or read book Rules of Engagement for Non-Lethal Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-lethal weapons have changed the nature of force options available to U.S. commanders. Where there used to be only two options; no force and lethal force, now there has developed a.
Book Synopsis Conflict Without Casualties by : Richard L. Scott
Download or read book Conflict Without Casualties written by Richard L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis I show that the casualties associated with warfare can be largely avoided. This includes combatant casualties, as well as noncombatant and friendly forces. The U.S. military is frequently tasked with deploying into foreign countries and performing duties that range from conventional combat operations to humanitarian relief and training host nationals. The politics of every deployment are complicated and invariably there will be some resistance, both domestically and internationally. People may feel victimized or marginalized and may demonstrate with protests, both peaceful and violent. How, then, may the use of non-lethal force be best applied in hostile situations in lieu of the "shout or shoot" approach commonly associated with military operations? Scientific advances in non-lethal technology may serve to curb violence while still allowing Soldiers and Marines to accomplish their missions.
