Keith Pavlischek is a military affairs expert with a focus on just war theory and the ethics of war. He retired as a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2007 after thirty years of active and reserve service, having served in Desert Storm, Bosnia, Iraq, with the U.S. Central Command, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (1994) and numerous articles, including a chapter on the ethics of asymmetric warfare in the Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics (2015).
Marc LiVecche joins Providence contributor Keith Pavlischek and the Hoover Institution’s Peter Berkowitz on a wide-ranging exploration of Israel’s war against Hamas and adjacent themes.
Marc LiVecche & Keith Pavlischek & Peter BerkowitzJanuary 29, 2025
Marc LiVecche, Keith Pavlischek, and Mackubin Owens discuss VP nominee Tim Walz’s (mis)representation of his military service
Marc LiVecche & Keith Pavlischek & Mackubin Thomas OwensSeptember 2, 2024
Marc LiVecche and Keith Pavlischek kvetch on pacifists, idealists, terrorist-enablers, and others who get Hamas, October 7th, and just war tradition wrong.
Marc LiVecche & Keith PavlischekNovember 11, 2023
Robert Draper’s book To Start a War details why the Bush administration made a gravely mistaken decision, despite having clearly met the jus ad bellum criteria of “right intention.”
Keith PavlischekMay 21, 2021
Marc LiVecche, Derryck Green, and Keith Pavlischek continue their conversation on race, the church, and politics.
Marc LiVecche & Derryck Green & Keith PavlischekApril 9, 2021
Marc LiVecche, Derryck Green, and Keith Pavlischek discuss a recent poll from Pew Research about the Black church and spirituality in America.
Marc LiVecche & Derryck Green & Keith PavlischekMarch 26, 2021
Mob violence cannot be tolerated, and when threatened should be met with overwhelming force—as a deterrent, and with proportional and discriminant force, or “reciprocal violence” if you prefer—without apology, with far less concern for “optics,” and without any concern for the ideology of the mob if deterrence fails.
Keith PavlischekJanuary 20, 2021
In this episode of the ProvCast, executive editor Marc LiVecche speaks with senior editor Keith Pavlischek about a variety of…
Marc LiVecche & Keith PavlischekSeptember 25, 2020
Military affairs expert Keith Pavlischek lectured at Providence Magazine’s Christianity & National Security Conference on Nov. 3, 2018. [Applause] Actually,…
Keith PavlischekMay 14, 2018
The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference. Keith Pavlischek discusses the history of pacifism…
Keith PavlischekOctober 19, 2017