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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.

Just War Theory raises some of the most pressing and important philosophical issues of our day. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area written by leading scholars and offering significant contributions to how we understand just war theory.

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.

This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war.Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor does such a pronouncement have sufficient persuasive force to govern actions in the public arena. So what are the moral grounds of laws concerning war, and what ought these laws to be?Adopting the distinction between jus ad bellum<

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.

Principled just recourse over realism and neo-traditionalism -- Just war theory and the ethical restraint of war -- Presumptions, principles, and prerogatives in war : against hawkish neo-traditionalism -- Why punishment is not a just cause for war -- The need for a restrictively high, legalist just cause threshold -- Against the new cosmopolitan interventionism : why human rights protection is not sufficient cause for war -- What is it good for? Consequences and the limits of war -- Why two wrongs cannot make a right use of force : a critique of compound just causes -- Procedures for the reasonable limitation of war -- Jus ad (continuandum) bellum : reevaluating the justice of interventions over time -- The nature and necessity of legitimate authorization -- Conclusion : applying non-interventionist jus ad bellum.

This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.

A memo in which John Howard Yoder offers further reflection on the Just War tradition.

"In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare, examining the moral issues that arise before, during, and after conflict. However, Walzer and subsequent scholars have often limited their analyses of the ethics of combat to soldiers on the ground and failed to recognize the moral responsibilities of senior political and military leaders. In Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory, James M. Dubik draws on years of research as well as his own experiences as a soldier and teacher to fill the gaps left by other theorists. He applies moral philosophy, political philosophy, and strategic studies to historical and contemporary case studies to reveal the inaccuracies and moral bankruptcy that inform some of the literature on military ethics. Conventional just war theory adopts a binary approach, wherein political leaders have moral accountability for the decision to go to war and soldiers have accountability for fighting the war ethically. Dubik argues, however, that political and military leadership should be held accountable for the planning and execution of war in addition to the decision to initiate conflict. Dubik bases his sober reassessment on the fundamental truth that war risks the lives of soldiers and innocents as well as the political and social health of communities. He offers new standards to evaluate the ethics of warfare in the hope of increasing the probability that the lives of soldiers will not be used in vain and the innocent not put at risk unnecessarily."--Provided by publisher