The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our TimeWar, Peter Temes writes, is always wrong but sometimes necessary. With that principle at its center, this book offers a critical history of just war thinking, beginning with ancient epics and extending through American responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. |
Contents
We Go to War That We May Have Peace | 9 |
The Fundamental Ideas of Just War | 41 |
The Center and | 76 |
Copyright | |
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