Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge 2012) and co-editor of Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford 2018).

In most countries there is a deferential mystique about the military establishment and its vital role in guaranteeing national security. Ned Dobos's timely book is the most thorough, clear, and cogently argued philosophical critique of that mystique and its associated beliefs that I have read.

• 1: Introduction 2: Military Conditioning and Moral Damage 3: The Coup Risk 4: The Danger of Fear-Induced Aggression 5: Cognitive Bias and the Misuse of Military Power 6: Martial Values in Civilian Life Concluding Remarks Epilogue: Towards "Post-Military Defence"?

Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge 2012) and co-editor of Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford 2018).

In most countries there is a deferential mystique about the military establishment and its vital role in guaranteeing national security. Ned Dobos's timely book is the most thorough, clear, and cogently argued philosophical critique of that mystique and its associated beliefs that I have read.

• 1: Introduction 2: Military Conditioning and Moral Damage 3: The Coup Risk 4: The Danger of Fear-Induced Aggression 5: Cognitive Bias and the Misuse of Military Power 6: Martial Values in Civilian Life Concluding Remarks Epilogue: Towards "Post-Military Defence"?

Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge 2012) and co-editor of Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford 2018).

In most countries there is a deferential mystique about the military establishment and its vital role in guaranteeing national security. Ned Dobos's timely book is the most thorough, clear, and cogently argued philosophical critique of that mystique and its associated beliefs that I have read.

• 1: Introduction 2: Military Conditioning and Moral Damage 3: The Coup Risk 4: The Danger of Fear-Induced Aggression 5: Cognitive Bias and the Misuse of Military Power 6: Martial Values in Civilian Life Concluding Remarks Epilogue: Towards "Post-Military Defence"?