Ethical Dilemmas in the Global Defense Industry

DANIEL SCHOENI has been with the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps since 2004 and is currently assigned to Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He has served as a prosecutor, trial and appellate defense counsel, program counsel, and staff judge advocate. He recently completed a Ph.D. in public procurement law at the University of Nottingham, has lectured at King's College London since 2017, and is a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University. TOBIAS VESTNER is Head of the Research and Policy Advice Department and Head of the Security and Law Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He has co-authored International Law and Policy on the Protection of Civilians (2022) and A Guide to International Disarmament Law (2019). He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, a Fellow at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Previously, he was Research Affiliate and Global Futures Fellow at Georgetown University and Policy Advisor at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

Acknowledgements
Foreword, Leo Mackay
Introduction, Daniel E. Schoeni and Tobias Vestner

PART I: ASSESSING ETHICAL NORMS IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY

Chapter 1. Tobias Vestner, The Defense Industry's Contribution to National Security
Chapter 2. Duncan MacIntosh, The Sniper and the Psychopath: A Parable in Defense of the Weapons Industry
Chapter 3. Richard W. Painter, Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors of Military Contractors: Shareholder Primacy or Loyalty to the United States?
Chapter 4. C. Edward Peartree, What Ethical Dilemmas? The U.S. Defense Industry and Foreign Arms Sales

PART II: ETHICAL DILEMMAS RELATING TO NEW MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 5. Thomas E. Ayres, Kevin Govern, and Michael W. Meier, The Ethics of Better Weapons: A Soldier Lawyer's View
Chapter 6. Brian Green, Space Ethics for the Modern Warrior
Chapter 7. Jeffrey Biller and Timothy Goins, Protecting Civilian Data in Armed Conflicts: The Need for an Ethical Foundation
Chapter 8. Blake Hereth and Nicholas G. Evans, Artificial Intelligence and the Cost-Sharing Dilemma

PART III: ADDRESSING CORRUPTION IN GLOBAL MARKETS

Chapter 9. Philip M. Nichols, Defense Firms' Duties to Society When Presented with an Opportunity to Pay a Bribe
Chapter 10. Mark Pyman, Tackling Defense Corruption: A