ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses of culture centric warfare, Scales has in mind the complexity and dynamics of conscious and subconscious feelings and intentions. The imperial experience between the 1840s and 1940s is part of world history. That is inter-cultural conflict or culture centric warfare where the driving force for hostility is one or more cultural groups believing they are under cultural threat, not only politico-military and economic threat. From their different cultural positions and traditions each of these groups hold ethical understandings and judge the morality of action and human behavior in different ways, often with competing or deeply opposing social, professional, intellectual and religious bases of moral understanding and moral intent. There is an unbroken experience from the experiences of Northern Ireland and the Balkans, which is now becoming part of the basis of understanding for the current generation. The constitutional, legal and social position of religious groups also has to be taken into account.