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"Drawing on extensive State Department files, declassified Navy policy papers, interviews with both former top officials and individuals who were involved in incidents, David F. Winkler examines the evolution of the U.S.-Soviet naval relationship during the Cold War, focusing in particular on the 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement (INCSEA). In this volume, an updated edition of his classic Cold War at Sea, Winkler brings the story up to the present, detailing occasional U.S.-Russia naval force interactions, including the April 2016 Russian aircraft "buzzings" of the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic. He also details China's efforts to militarize the South China Sea, claim sovereignty over waters within their exclusive economic zone, and the U.S. Navy's continuing efforts to counter these challenges to freedom of navigation."--Provided by publisher

The year 2022 will mark the centennial of the commissioning of the US Navy's first aircraft carrier USS Langley. In late 1936, the ship was converted to become a seaplane tender and in 1939 is deployed to Manila. Following news reaching Admiral Hart and the Asiatic Fleet of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the arrival of Japanese bombers over Manila is imminent and the Langley is determined to be vulnerable to air attack. Departing Manila on December 9, Langley's skipper Capt. Felix Stump served as the officer in tactical command of a convoy that also included the oilers Trinity and Pecos and is able to work his way through the archipelago, meeting up with the cruisers Houston and Boise which pick up the escort duties. Reaching Darwin before the end of the year, Stump turns over command to his executive officer Cdr. Robert McConnell to join the staff of the newly formed America British Dutch Australian combined command (ABDACOM) combined command under Vice Adm. William A. Glassford. Unfortunately, Langley will be lost on February 27, 1942, during a desperate attempt to transport Army P-40 pursuit planes to support Dutch efforts to defend Java.

As a consequence of the rapid growth of Soviet maritime power during the 1960s, hazardous incidents at sea & in the air became a regular part of the Cold War. Eventually, both Washington & Moscow came to recognize the importance of an agreement limiting this perilous set of interactions, resulting in the Incidents at Sea Agreement that was signed in May 1972. The set of rules & procedures agreed upon helped to calm tensions in subsequent crises & provides ample lessons for placing reasonable limits on other tense maritime rivalries. Adapted from the source document.

Chapter 1. Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity – Introduction to the Volume (Daniel Messelken & David T. Winkler) -- Part 1: Doctrinal and legal aspects -- Chapter 2. Military Medical Ethics & the United States: An Overview of Recent Developments in the Operationalized Landscape (Sheena Eagan) -- Chapter 3. Attacks on hospitals: an alarming problem for military medicine as well as for humanitarian medicine (Philippe Calain) -- Chapter 4. Impact of US anti-terrorism legislation on the obligation of non-state armed groups to provide medical care to the wounded and sick under IHL (Audrey Palama) -- Chapter 5. Military Medical Staff in Hybrid Wars (Paul Gilbert) -- Part 2: Treating soldiers -- Chapter 6. Morituri soldiers on operation theatres: the French approach and a case analysis (Gwion Loarer & Julien Viant) -- Chapter 7. Patient Preference Predictors and Paternalism in Military Medicine (Nathaniel Sharadin) -- Chapter 8. Battlefield Euthanasia: Ethics and the Law (David L. Perry) -- Part 3: Treating civilians and humanitarian missions -- Chapter 9. The Ethical Challenges of Providing Medical Care to Civilians during Armed Conflict (Michael L. Gross) -- Chapter 10. Bridging the Gap between Intentions and Outcomes in Military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief missions (Joanne Clifford) -- Chapter 11. Rescuing Relief in Remote Management and Programming: Using a Duty of Care Transfer Review to Assess the Accountability of Humanitarian Interventions (Ali Okhowat & Caroline Clarinval) -- Chapter 12. Unpacking the "oughtness" of palliative care in humanitarian crises: moral logics and what is at stake? (Elysee Nouvet et al) -- Chapter 13. Risk and infectious disease outbreaks: should military medical personnel be willing to accept greater risks than civilian medical workers? (Heather Draper) -- Part 4: Doing research -- Chapter 14. When to Suspend Bioethical Principles in Military Medicine for Operational Purposes: a Framework Approach (Nikki Coleman) -- Chapter 15. The Ethics of Biomedical Military Research: Therapy, Prevention, Enhancement, and Risk (Alexandre Erler & Vincent Müller) -- Chapter 16. Military medicine research: Incorporation of high risk of irreversible harms into a stratified risk framework for clinical trials (Alexander Harris & Frédéric Gilbert) -- Index.