Abstract
The decision when to design, what to design, and how to use a particular technology is routinely left up to the engineers who work with the science upon which the technologies are based. There is a wide array of additional specialties including non-govemmental organizations, international organizations, non-state actors, and those who are impacted by their use whose concerns need to be considered. For the military, decisions regarding design and use of these technologies is of particular and immediate concern. Governance of military technologies must reflect the legal and ethical concerns of the people the military is sworn to protect; yet it must also recognize the existential need for soldiers to accomplish a myriad of violent and dangerous tasks while at the same time looking out for the welfare of the soldier.
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Part one: Who gets to decide?
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Part two: How to regulate?
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Nick Bostrom, Julian Savulescu, “Introduction, Human Enhancement Ethics: The State of the Debate” in Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom, eds. Human Enhancement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 2.
For a particular example of what can go wrong when the legal profession invades and dominates the world of policy makers see Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007).
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Jack Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 225.
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Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts, The American Military on the Ground (New York: Random House, 2005), 7.
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O’Meara, R.M. (2014). Arms around the Problem: Suggestions for Future Governance. In: Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137449177_6
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