History & The Arts
The moral equality of combatants
...write that ‘the most basic … architectonic distinction that structure[s] the law of war is the radical separation of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello . The lawfulness of war has no bearing on the proper conduct of war’ (2008, p. 20). It is often suggested that the JaB and JiB conditions also apply most directly to different groups of people. Statesmen and politicians...