War is Deceit

56 Pages·2017·3.37 MB·English

by  Dr Joel Hayward

War is Deceit
An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on
the Morality of Military Deception
Professor Joel Hayward
English Monograph Series—Book No. 24

Say: 'My prayer and my rituals, and my living, and my dying, are
all for God, the Lord of the Worlds.
No associate has He. And to this, I have been commanded, and I
am the first of those who submit'.
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War is Deceit
An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on
the Morality of Military Deception
Professor Joel Hayward
War is Deceit, An Analysis of a Contentious Hadith on the Morality of
Military Deception
ISBN: 978-9957-635-17-6
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Contents
About the Author v
War is Deceit 1
Endnotes 31
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About the Author
Professor Joel Hayward is Professor of Strategic Thought
at the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates.
His former posts have included being the Director of the
Institute of International and Civil Security and the Chair of
the multidisciplinary Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences at Khalifa University (UAE) and the Dean of the
Royal Air Force College (UK). He is the author of many
books and peer-reviewed articles.
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