A Framework for Ethical Decision Making

In April 2015, the Foreign Policy Research Institute presented its Madeleine and W.W. Keen Butcher History Institute on Ethical Dilemmas in American Warfare hosted by the First Division Museum at Cantigny, Wheaton, IL. Covering such topics as the Dilemmas of Civil Liberties and State Security; the ethics of emergent types of warfare (Drones, Cyberattacks, and Future War); the Dilemmas of Wars Amongst the People: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; the Dilemmas of Economic Warfare: and the Case of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, the Institute took teachers from around the United States through many scenarios, historical narratives, and personal stories that illuminated the complex nature of ethical decision making in military affairs.