Military giants, ethical infants

A heavy weapon on display at an armaments convention in Brazil. Photo: AFP

To paraphrase US military commander Omar Bradley, we continue to know more about war than about peace, more about killing than about living.  Our world is one of military giants (in his case nuclear military giants) and ethical infants. We work assiduously on militarisation and only fleetingly, if at all on its related ethics. The...