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 ......Page 114 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