The "Ethical" Framework for Counterinsurgency: International Law of War and Cultural Knowledge in the "U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual"
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Counterinsurgency Field Manual, war on terror, international law, cultural knowledge and war, ethical violence, 11 September 2001Abstract
U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan elicited moral and legal justifications by their reluctant liberal supporters. But after the rise in combatant and civilian casualties, especially in Iraq, the U.S. military shifted its attention toward softer methods of winning these wars. The Counterin surgency Field Manual was published within the context of these ethico-legal and military concerns. This manual proposes a "new" counterinsurgency doctrine, which claims to rely on international law of war and social scientific knowledge to train counterinsurgents and directs them to learn cultural knowledge to wage an "ethical" war.
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