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...
Topics: ethics, military deception, lying, civilians, doctrine of double effect, just war theory,...