ARMY OF LIES: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF DECEIVING CIVILIANS IN WAR
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This thesis explores the ethical permissibility of deceiving civilians during military operations, primarily military deception operations. It examines this issue using both consequential and non-consequential frameworks and explores how the potential ethics of deceiving civilians interacts with current just war theory, the doctrine of double effect, and non-combatant immunity. These common ethical frameworks are used to develop a method for evaluating the ethical considerations of deceiving civilians in war. This method is then applied to a case study involving deception of civilians in Syria. Weighing those considerations in a real-world scenario provides information on how these types of deceptions measure up morally both in theory and practice. Ultimately, a recommendation on the probable morality of any future deception of civilians is determined.
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