- Title Pages
- Other Books by George Anastaplo
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. On Understanding the Others
- 2. Life and Not-Life in Thucydides’ Funeral Oration
- 3. Death and Resurrection in Euripides’ <i>Bacchae</i>
- 4. Resurrection and Death in <i>Everyman</i>
- 5. John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Eden
- 6. Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence
- 7. Time and the Constitution
- 8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project
- 9. Public Health and Private Consciences
- 10. The <i>Flag Salute Cases</i> (1940, 1943)
- 11. Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription
- 12. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War
- 13. Do All Somehow Aim at the Good?
- 1. Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i> and the Elusiveness of the Good
- 2. Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life
- 3. <i>Griswold</i> v. <i>Connecticut</i> (1965) and the Prevention of Conception
- 4. <i>Roe</i> v. <i>Wade</i> (1973) and the Law of Abortion
- 5 <i>Planned Parenthood</i> v. <i>Casey</i> (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue
- 6. Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court
- 7. Capital Punishment Reconsidered
- 8 Nancy Cruzan and “The Right to Die”
- 9. <i>Washington</i> v. <i>Glucksberg</i> (1997) and Assisted Suicide
- 10 The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain
- 11. Evolution and the Law
- 12. Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- 13. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time
- Appendix A The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Appendix B The United States Constitution (1787)
- Appendix C The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791–1992)
- Appendix D Pericles, The Funeral Address (431 B.C.E.)
- Appendix EOn Death and Dying: Ancient, Christian, and Modern
- Appendix F Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Appendix G Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Appendix H George Anastaplo, on the <i>Ultron</i> and the Foundations of Things (1974)
- Appendix I Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000)
- Appendix J Cases and Other Materials Drawn On
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- [UNTITLED]
- Index
- About the Author
. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War
. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War
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- (p.82) 12. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War
- Source:
- Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution
- Author(s):
George Anastaplo
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter deals with the steady pounding that the by-then virtually undefended German cities were being subjected to by the American and British air forces. It notes that the civilian casualties from these air raids could not help but be substantial. It cites an article titled “The Morality of Obliteration Bombing”, published by John C. Ford, a New England Jesuit. It provides that Father Ford did not, in this article, speak as a pacifist as he was willing to consider the war against Nazi Germany a just war. It notes however, that Ford condemned as unlawful the systematic killing of noncombatants necessarily resulting from the air raids to which German cities were being subjected. It further notes that obliteration (or area) bombing was distinguishable for him from the precision bombing consistent with the long-accepted rules of war.
Keywords: civilian casualties, air raids, The Morality of Obliteration Bombing, John C. Ford, Nazi Germany, rules of war, obliteration bombing, precision bombing
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- Title Pages
- Other Books by George Anastaplo
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. On Understanding the Others
- 2. Life and Not-Life in Thucydides’ Funeral Oration
- 3. Death and Resurrection in Euripides’ <i>Bacchae</i>
- 4. Resurrection and Death in <i>Everyman</i>
- 5. John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Eden
- 6. Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence
- 7. Time and the Constitution
- 8. Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project
- 9. Public Health and Private Consciences
- 10. The <i>Flag Salute Cases</i> (1940, 1943)
- 11. Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription
- 12. Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War
- 13. Do All Somehow Aim at the Good?
- 1. Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i> and the Elusiveness of the Good
- 2. Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life
- 3. <i>Griswold</i> v. <i>Connecticut</i> (1965) and the Prevention of Conception
- 4. <i>Roe</i> v. <i>Wade</i> (1973) and the Law of Abortion
- 5 <i>Planned Parenthood</i> v. <i>Casey</i> (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue
- 6. Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court
- 7. Capital Punishment Reconsidered
- 8 Nancy Cruzan and “The Right to Die”
- 9. <i>Washington</i> v. <i>Glucksberg</i> (1997) and Assisted Suicide
- 10 The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain
- 11. Evolution and the Law
- 12. Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- 13. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time
- Appendix A The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Appendix B The United States Constitution (1787)
- Appendix C The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791–1992)
- Appendix D Pericles, The Funeral Address (431 B.C.E.)
- Appendix EOn Death and Dying: Ancient, Christian, and Modern
- Appendix F Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Appendix G Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Appendix H George Anastaplo, on the <i>Ultron</i> and the Foundations of Things (1974)
- Appendix I Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000)
- Appendix J Cases and Other Materials Drawn On
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Index
- About the Author
