A Genevan attorney, and reader of First Principles, offers these reflections on the moral dilemmas facing Western armies when fighting in asymmetrical conflicts: [URL=http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1303/1303baeriswyl.htm ]The Use and Perception of Violence: A Girardian Approach to Asymmetric Warfare[/URL].

What happens when two embattled forces define their goals in radically different ways, when one seek to destroy physically while the other wages a battle of perception? What of asymmetries of interest, capability, legal restrictions, and identifiability? This paper explores some of the relevant theories in support of maintaining the ethical boundaries uniquely applicable to asymmetrical conflict.