This study examines the evolution and continued applicability of the corpus, both conventional and customary, that constitutes the law of war. The author provides a theoretical framework and the development of the law within Western and,...
There is seldom absolute clarity in war and the certainty of war's death and destruction inevitably elicits questions of justifiability among our Soldiers. Soldiers aren't ethicists; neither are they lawyers or philosophers. In the heat of battle,...
The future global system of international relations, the clash of civilizations, the revolution in military affairs, and the expansion of war present significant challenges to just-war theory. The problem is that modern definitions of just-war...
A couple of weeks ago the news reported that 1000 Soldiers had been injured or killed in the War with Iraq and that the United States was losing the war, rather than winning. The news also stated that there had been more civilian casualties due to...
The purpose behind this monograph was to explore the moral level of war in the context of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the larger framework of counterinsurgency operations. Operation Iraqi Freedom is a war fought in the moral realm and the resulting...