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The Good Kill addresses the crisis of moral injury among warfighters from the perspective of the just war tradition. By providing a moral framework for enduring the heavy business of killing in combat, Marc LiVecche offers potential remedies to help warfighters manage the effects of killing without becoming irreparably morally injured.

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE THEORY OF JUST WAR AND ITS PLACE IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. IT BRIEFLY TRACES THE PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY OF JUST-WAR THEORY AND ILLUSTRATES HOW IT HAS CHANGED DURING THE PAST THREE DECADES. THE ARTICLE ALSO ARGUES THAT RECENT CHANGES REFLECT CONTINGENT JUDGMENTS ON THE NATURE OF MODERN WAR THAT DO NOT MATCH THE CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY ARMED CONFLICTS. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES BY SUGGESTING THAT JUST-WAR THEORY REMAINS RELEVENT TO THE CHALLENGES FACED BY STATESMEN TODAY.

Preliminary Material /Thom Brooks -- Introduction /Thom Brooks -- The Permissibility of Aiding and Abetting Unjust Wars /Saba Barzargan -- Dividing Harm /Gerhard Øverland -- Consistency in the Armed Enforcement of Human Rights: A Moral Necessity? /Ned Dobos -- Conditional Threats /Gerhard Øverland -- Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put to the Test /Daniel Statman -- Self-Defence among Innocent People /Gerhard Øverland -- Killing in War and Moral Equality /Stephen R. Shalom -- Self-Defence and the Principle of Non-Combatant Immunity /Helen Frowe -- Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants /David Lefkowitz -- Defining Terrorism for Public Policy Purposes: The Group–Target Definition /Eric Reitan -- Bibliography /Thom Brooks -- Index /Thom Brooks.

Despite much progress over the last sixty years, the US Army has struggled to find and train its' personnel in a sufficient moral framework. In war time this struggle has been seen with the senseless abuse of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. This is a grave concern for many including Christians. As a Christian and US Army Chaplain over the last fifteen years, I address this problem. Beginning with an exposition of controversial passages in the New Testament and the early church, an intellectual space will be created where the Christian faith and military service can function together. Just War Christian Discipleship, a certain way of appropriating the Augustinian view of Just War Tradition, presents and develops a Christian solution for proper response of the church faced with a nation considering, conducting, and ending a war. But this framework can also be used to help Christian US Army soldiers function in a one year deployment and combat mission. By combining the Just War (CD) framework with the seven virtues espoused by Thomas Aquinas and placing theses virtues as possible guides to practice the criteria of Just War (CD) within a year deployment and combat mission, the framework of Just War (CD) can be expanded to facilitate a better Christian witness.

Duane Cady views warism and pacifism as polar extremes on a continuum that embraces a full spectrum of ethical positions on the morality of war and peace. Realizing that he could not intellectually defend the notions of just-war theory, he found that he was a reluctant pacifist. In this new edition of From Warism to Pacifism, Cady continues to expose the pervasive, subconscious warism that is the dominant ideology in modern Western culture. He explores the changes over the last twenty years—from the end of the Cold War to the ongoing "war on terror," as well as Barack Obama w

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The First World War -- The Pre-war Period -- Beginnings -- How the War was Fought -- US Home Front -- The Consequences -- 3 The Second World War -- The Interwar Period -- Beginnings -- How the War was Fought -- US Home Front -- The Consequences -- 4 The Korean War -- The Interwar Period -- Beginnings -- How the War was Fought -- US Home Front -- The Consequences -- 5 The Vietnam War -- The Interwar Period -- Beginnings -- How the War was Fought -- US Home Front -- The Consequences -- 6 Conclusions -- How the Wars Began - Justice of War -- How the Wars were Fought - Justice in War -- How the Wars Ended - Justice after the War -- US Home Front - Justice at Home -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Annotated Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index.

"This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain highly controversial contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East. The first part of the book addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms levelled at traditional just war theory. It offers a detailed defense of civilian immunity, the moral equality of solders and the related dichotomy between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, and argues that these principles taken together amount to a morally coherent ethics of war. In this sense this project is traditional (or 'orthodox'). In another sense, however, it is highly relevant to the modern world. While the first part of the book defends the just war tradition against its revisionist critics, the second part applies it to an array of timely issues: civil war, economic warfare, excessive harm to civilians, pre-emptive military strikes, and state-sponsored assassination, which require applying just war theory in practice. This book sets out to reaffirm the basic tenets of the traditional ethics of war and to lend them further moral support, subsequently applying them to a variety of practical issues. This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, ethics, security studies, war and conflict studies, and IR in general."--Provided by publisher.