The Viability Of Moral Dissent By The Military

Abstract

This paper is not a political statement, although it contains value-judgments about anti-Islamic rhetoric heard in the 2016 US presidential campaign. There is, however, an unavoidably political element to this paper, since it considers the potential implications of ideas first publicly discussed by candidates competing for the Republican Partys 2016 presidential nomination. While anti-Islamic rhetoric and actions are integral to the scenario described, the characters are fictional and are not analogous to any military or political figure currently in a position of authority or running for office. The political affiliation of the president in the scenario is deliberately unstated. No political party has a monopoly on or immunity from ugly ideas. The Japanese internment, which underpins everything in this paper, was authorized by a Democrat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1031582

Entities

People

  • Lee M. Turcotte

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil Rights
  • Congress
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Supreme Court
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • United States Northern Command
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.