Dr Adam Henschke, applied ethicist, is a lecturer at the National Security College and at the Australian National University, and a research fellow with the Delft University of Technology. While he was a visiting researcher at the Brocher Foundation, his research was supported by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. His expertise concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics and on relations between ethics and national security. The ideas expressed in this post are the author’s own.