History & The Arts
The moral equality of combatants
...account given by a present-day just war theorist, Uwe Steinhoff. The Jus ad Bellum ( JaB ) conditions: A legitimate authority (king, president, parliament and the like) decides on the entrance into war. One has a just cause for entering into war (for example, defence against an aggressor). One pursues the war with the right intention, namely for the purposes of a just...