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Reimaging “ Honorable Death ” in Future Large Scale Combat Operations
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeschke, E. Ann Huffman, Sarah L. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Advances in military and medical capabilities experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan codified the aspirational ideal of “leave no man behind” into an expectation to save the lives of all injured warfighters under all circumstances. Over the past two decades, the ability to deliver advanced medical care on and off the battlefield has allowed for an unprecedented overall survival rate exceeding 90%. Confronting near-peer adversaries in large scale combat operations (LSCO) on a multi-domain battlefield poses new challenges to combat casualty care making it frighteningly more complex. LSCO distributed across vast geographic space, combined with anti-access and area denial, means longer evacuation times and greater distances between care facilities as compared to those encountered in the counter insurgency and stability operations of recent decades. Some experts project that fighting a near-peer enemy in LSCO will result in thousands of casualties at one time. Military necessity will restrict medical access, govern distribution of scarce medical resources, and compel triage management. Specifically, LSCO could dictate triage based on return to duty versus saving all lives and retrieving the dead from the battlefield. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ethics-Symp-2019-p69-79.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
