How We Fight

<em>How We Fight: Ethics in War</em> presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both <em>jus ad bellum</em> (the morality of going to war) and <em>jus in bello</em> (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations of<br>classic <em>in bello</em> topics such as the principle of non-combatant immunity and the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants the volume also addresses <em>ad bellum</em> topics such as pacifism and punitive justifications for war and explores the relationship between <em>ad bellum</em> and <em>in bello</em><br>topics or how the fighting of a war may affect our judgments concerning whether that war meets the <em>ad bellum</em> conditions. The essays take a keen interest in the micro-foundations of just war theory and uphold the general assumption that the rules of war must be supported if they are going to be<br>supported at all by the liability and non-liability of the individuals who are encompassed by those rules. Relatedly the volume also contains work which is relevant to the moral justification of several moral doctrines used either explicitly or implicitly in just war theory: in the doctrine of<br>double effect in the generation of liability in basic self-defensive cases and in the relationship between liability and the conditions which are normally appended to permissible self-defensive violence: imminence necessity and proportionality. The volume breaks new ground in all these areas.<br>