Humane Warfare Book

	Introduction	1
1	Humanising war	7
	Surfing the Zeitgeist	7
	Irony and war	11
	Humanising modernity	15
	Humanising war	17
2	War and the renunciation of cruelty	24
	The American Century and the will to power	25
	Vietnam: the end of America's will to power	30
	Into the slaughterhouse	36
	Judith Shklar and cruelty	40
3	The redundancy of courage	44
	Machiavelli and the virtuous state	44
	Hegel and war as a vocation	46
	Nietzsche and the masses as a military caste	47
	The end of the virtuous state	50
	The risk society	51
	Risk-aversive war	56
	Stress-free war	61
4	War without hatred	67
	Why no enemies?	69
	Post-materialist war	78
	Uncivil society	81
	The feminisation of society	83
	Non-lethal warfare	88
5	The humane warrior	91
	Counter-culture	92
	Post-military society	93
	Post-traditional military	96
	The feminisation of the military	103
6	Zoning the planet	111
	Keeping the peace	112
	An insecure world	115
	The humanitarian military ethos	117
	Humanitarian imperialism	125
	Humanitarian war and the loss of metaphysics	126
7	Humane war and the moral imagination	131
	Lin Yutang and humanised thinking	131
	Richard Rorty and the end of metaphysics	133
	History as a metaphysical principle	134
	War and sacrifice in an ironic world	142
8	Conclusion	146
	Humanism and war	146
	Humanity and war	147
	Humanitarian wars	148
	Notes	152
	Index	165