Discuss the following case using

A. Results-Based Analysis ( greatest good for the greatest number)

B. Rule-Based Analysis ("what is good for one is good for all" )

C. Virtue-Based Analysis (The action will be influenced by the ingrained dispositions of the decision maker.)

D. Behavioral Ethics-Based Analysis

You are Major Smith, the new counterintelligence operations officer for a battalion deployed last week to support Operation A. The infantry brigade is deployed throughout a major city, patrolling the streets. Things have not been going well in the last month. A number of soldiers have been killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) set by insurgents. As the senior officer, you get a call from your commander, who reports he just caught an insurgent leader. The commander says the leader is bragging that a car bomb has been set to go off in the next 30 minutes and said, "There's nothing you can do about it." The company commander is prepared to do some "serious persuasion" to find out where the bomb is, saying, "Your interrogators are too far away. I know the new directives say they have to do all interrogations by the bookbut time is running out. I know how to make a man talk, so I can get the information. These attacks have to come to an end. Request guidance, sir." What should you do, Major?

A similar case occurred in the reality of war in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom), resulting in the deaths of two detainees in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in December 2002. In February 2003, Lieutenant General Daniel K. McNeill, commander of American forces in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003, said prisoners Mullah Habibullah and Dilawar had died of natural causes. He did not disclose that military pathologists had described both deaths as homicides caused by beatings.

Sergeant James P. Boland watched a subordinate beat prisoner Habibullah. Boland chained the hands of Dilawar above his shoulders and denied him medical care. Nearly two years later, the Army charged Sergeant Boland with criminal offenses in the Dilawar case, ranging from dereliction of duty to maiming and involuntary manslaughter. The findings of the military investigation support accounts by former Afghan prisoners that they were subject to abuse. The interrogation methods described were authorized in Guantanamo Bay, Cubanot Bagramincluding removal of clothing, isolation for long periods, stress positions, and sleep and light deprivation. Three men arrested with Dilawar said they were hooded with their arms raised and chained to the ceiling for hours and days at a time in Bagram. One of the three men said he was forced to lie on his stomach and a solider jumped on his back. Was the price of immorality of abuse worth paying? Did obtaining intelligence from the prisoners constitute a supreme emergency?