TY - BOOK AU - Eckert,Amy TI - Outsourcing war: the just war tradition in the age of military privatization SN - 9781501703560 AV - UB149 .O987 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Ithaca, London PB - Cornell University Press KW - Private military companies KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Private security services KW - Mercenary troops KW - Just war doctrine KW - Military ethics KW - War KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; The just war tradition and the new market for private force --; The state system and the evolution of the just war tradition --; Jus ad bellum principles and privatized war --; Privatization and the normative challenge to jus in bello rules --; The ethics of war, the market for private force, and the public/private divide; 2; b N2 - Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. This book examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1132878&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -