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November/December 2013

Moral Wounds: The Ethics of Volunteer Military Service

Jeff McMahan leads a forum on volunteer military service, with replies from Brian Imiola, Shannon E. French, Adil Ahmad Haque, and others. Plus, Stephan Phelan revisits Rodolfo Walsh’s struggle for Argentina; Susie Linfield on Israeli Leftists, and more.

 

Forum 

Moral Wounds: The Ethics of Volunteer Military Service

Jeff McMahan — with responses from:

ASSAF SHARON, BRIAN IMIOLA, SHANNON E. FRENCH, SETH LAZAR, ADIL AHMAD HAQUE, LAWRENCE J. KORB, LIONEL K. MCPHERSON, CHARLES J. DUNLAP JR., KIMBERLEY BROWNLEE, AND MATT GALLAGHER.

Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

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