Is Cyber Warfare a Just Warfare?
What moral obligations does the United States have with regards to Cyber Warfare? While major religions and dominant philosophies should be studied, this article provides a brief introduction to the Catholic perspective on this question. The Ethics of Electrics What is the morality of cyber warfare? The Atlantic poses that question and suggests that answering this question now - when cyber is emerging - provides an opportunity to "get it right" from the start. It is clearly a very important question, as the article describes thoroughly. The article identifies several important principles of just warfare (principles such as proportionality and distribution) and applies them to cyber warfare. Cyber warfare is often conducted behind the scenes, it sometimes falls into the category of espionage, which poses further moral challenges. Before directly…
