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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