Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Just War Theory and Practice

Introduction

Just war theory or the just war tradition (JWT) has become the dominant ethical philosophy in the West for the proper conduct of warfare. A definition of just war would be the aspiration to subordinate the type of state-sponsored violence called war to a sort of moral constraint. Through a series of treaties, international conventions and executive decisions, JWT has become the policy of the United States.[1] The result of this (along with other factors) has been the United States government’s inability to create a coherent foreign policy and achieve decisive military victory over America’s enemies in the last 60 years.

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