Just War Reconsidered Quotes

“The cruelest decisions [are left] to be made by the men [and women] on the spot.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

“Jus in bello—that area of just war theory that describes moral responsibility in the conduct of war—must, therefore, address both dimensions of war’s conduct.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

“The loyalist—especially one who has been a senior leader—has great difficulty coming to the belief that his or her organization could decline or deteriorate in the ways in which some are pointing out.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

“Strategic responsibilities in the conduct of war, though less direct and apparent than those on the battlefield, are no less important.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

“War is also conducted at the strategic level, the level at which senior political and military leaders set war aims, identify strategies and policies, approve the military and nonmilitary campaigns necessary to achieve those war aims, and establish the coordinative bodies necessary to translate plans into actions and adapt as the vagaries of war unfold.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory

“The difficulty of conditions that may mitigate responsibility does not erase it.”
― James M. Dubik, Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory