Wielding the Sword While Proclaiming Peace: Views from the LDS Community on Reconciling the Demands of National Security with the Imperatives of Revealed Truth

WIELDING THE SWORD WHILE PROCLAIMING PEACE: Views from the LDS Community on Reconciling the Demands of National Security with the Imperatives of Revealed Truth......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction and Overview......Page 10
The Moroni Model......Page 11
Overview......Page 12
1: A Tribute to Paul Y. Hammond, by Valerie M Hudson......Page 15
2: Ethical and International Affairs: Some Personal Encounters, by Stanley A. Taylor......Page 17
Introduction......Page 24
Religious Theories of the "Just War"......Page 25
International Law Theories of the Just War......Page 26
Post-World War II International Law Theories......Page 30
Latter-Day Saints: Proclaiming Peace While Fighting Wars......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 37
NOTES......Page 38
The Reality of Power......Page 40
The True Reality of Power......Page 41
NOTES......Page 46
U.S. National Security Strategy......Page 48
An LDS Doctrinal Framework......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 52
NOTES......Page 53
The Nature of the International Environment......Page 56
WaItzian Framework......Page 57
Causes of War According to the Scriptures......Page 60
What the General Authorities Have Said about the Causes of War......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 66
NOTES......Page 67
7: YES: The Book of Mormon as a Touchstone for Evaluating the Theory of Just War, by Lieutenant Colonel John Mark Mattox......Page 70
The Philosophical Foundations for the Theory of Just War......Page 71
Jus ad Bellum......Page 72
Jus in Bello......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 76
NOTES......Page 77
The Need for "Just Diplomacy" and "Just Economics"......Page 80
LDS Conflicts with the "Just War" Tradition......Page 81
Using the Gospel to Define "Just"......Page 83
Implications of the Mahan Principle for U.S. National Security......Page 85
Conclusion......Page 88
A Proposed LDS "Just Economics" Tradition......Page 89
NOTES......Page 90
Historical Foundations of the "Higher Law" in America......Page 92
Higher Law and War......Page 93
Latter-day Saints and Conscientious Objection......Page 94
Conscience and War in the Book of Mormon......Page 96
NOTES......Page 97
Teancum as a Case Study......Page 99
Lessons Learned......Page 102
Teancum and Modern Moral and Legal Perspectives......Page 104
Teancum's Actions and the Current National Security Environment......Page 108
NOTES......Page 110
REFERENCES......Page 111
11: Mass Destruction-Historical and LDS Perspectives, by Gary L. Stradling......Page 112
Nuclear Weapons Cut Rate of Wartime Fatalities
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Figure 2. A comparative perspective on epidemics today.......Page 116
NOTES......Page 117
Introduction......Page 118
The Arab Media and Perceptions of the U.S.......Page 119
What's Wrong with Arab Perceptions?......Page 121
Islamist Reformists......Page 123
Why Support the Reformists?......Page 124
Just War and the Preemptive Strategy Against Iraq......Page 125
Clinton Administration Inconsistencies Which Weakened Legitimacy......Page 126
Efforts by President George W. Bush to Restore Legitimacy......Page 128
A Just Cause......Page 129
Strategic Ambiguity and Preemptive War as Last Resort......Page 130
Reasonable Hope for Success......Page 131
Future......Page 132
NOTES......Page 133
13: YES-Preentption Doctrine: Self Defense or Indefensible?, by Major Eric Talbot Jensen......Page 140
Violence and the Gospel......Page 141
Self-Defense......Page 142
Preemptive Self-Defense......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 145
NOTES......Page 146
14: No-A Critique of the U.S. Security Doctrine of Preemptive Military Attacks - Mormon 4:4, by Frederick W Axelgard......Page 149
The Preemption Doctrine......Page 150
Mormon's Perspective......Page 152
Other Book of Mormon Perspectives......Page 154
President Kimball's Perspective......Page 155
A Specific Critique of Preemption Doctrine......Page 156
Conclusion......Page 157
NOTES......Page 158
The Gospel Definition of Security: Is America Secure?......Page 160
The Unjust Steward and American Foreign Policy Objectives......Page 163
16: Securing a Nation: An LDS Perspective on Post-Cold War Strategies for National Security, by Joseph C. Seeger......Page 165
Principles for Security: Obedience and Preparation......Page 166
Implications for U.S. Security Policy......Page 168
Conclusions......Page 169
NOTES......Page 170
17: A Case for Mormon Christian Pacifism, by Eugene England......Page 171
NOTES......Page 175
18: Security and Morality in a Contingent World, by Paul Y Hammond......Page 176
Munich and Deterrence......Page 177
When Violence Is Justified, How Much Is Justified?......Page 178
Threat-based Analysis as Support for Collective Action......Page 179
Choosing When to Act and When Not to Act in the Post-Cold War Era: Is It Harder Than Before?......Page 180
Order and Power......Page 182
Morality in the Post-Cold War Era......Page 185
NOTES......Page 186
Afterthoughts on the 2003 Symposium, by Valerie M Hudson......Page 188
About the Contributors......Page 191