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Does this kind of strategy limit war to the extent that states can accomplish their military objectives - wiping out terrorism - without losing the war of perception?
Humanity has tried to limit war on moral terms since Cicero first outlined the Just War Ethic, an effort that continues to this day.
Although often overshadowed by the horrors of war, the principles of the Just War Ethic do limit war's worst excesses by underpinning the discourse, decisions, behaviors and accountability related to war.
We would argue that a centuries-long record of failures to prevent or limit war despite ongoing evolution and extensive refinement of the just war framework should impel the Church toward a new moral framework.
And we should limit war's privatization through contractors, scale back our nuclear arsenal in particular to actual threats, and so on.
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He thought the term "limited war" was an oxymoron.
Rather than limiting war, this latest bombing of Syria normalizes the war's ongoing brutality.
Limited War and the Constitution, (with Oona Hathaway), 109 Michigan Law Review 447 (2011).
"This was Korea, 'the limited war,' " Mr. Cumings writes with fury.
Kutz shows how our democratic values, understood incautiously and incorrectly, can actually undermine the goal of limiting war.
The practical way to deter Soviet aggression was to prosecute a "limited" war by counter-balancing stockpiles of weaponry.
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