Keith Pavlischek

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).

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Foreign Policy ProvCast, Episode 84 | Peter Berkowitz on Liberal Education, Progressive Ideology, and the Israel-Hamas War

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.

Foreign Policy ProvCast, Episode 82 | On Tim Walz, Military Ethos, and Service Before Self

Marc LiVecche, Keith Pavlischek, and Mackubin Owens discuss VP nominee Tim Walz’s (mis)representation of his military service

Foreign Policy ProvCast, Ep. 81 | Vincible Ignorance, Invincible Ignorance, and Just Getting it Wrong About Hamas

Marc LiVecche and Keith Pavlischek kvetch on pacifists, idealists, terrorist-enablers, and others who get Hamas, October 7th, and just war tradition wrong.

How the Bush Administration Failed: A Review of Robert Draper’s To Start a War
How the Bush Administration Failed: A Review of Robert Draper’s To Start a War

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.”

True North, Ep. 12 | A Continued Conversation on Race, the Church, and Politics
True North, Ep. 12 | A Continued Conversation on Race, the Church, and Politics

Marc LiVecche, Derryck Green, and Keith Pavlischek continue their conversation on race, the church, and politics.

True North, Ep. 11 | A Discussion on a New Poll about the Black Church
True North, Ep. 11 | A Discussion on a New Poll about the Black Church

Marc LiVecche, Derryck Green, and Keith Pavlischek discuss a recent poll from Pew Research about the Black church and spirituality in America.

Christians, Washington Is Only a Waystation
Mob Violence and “Reciprocal Violence”: Then and Now

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.

Ep. 56 | From Kenosha to “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”

In this episode of the ProvCast, executive editor Marc LiVecche speaks with senior editor Keith Pavlischek about a variety of…

Keith Pavlischek Christianity & National Security 2018

Military affairs expert Keith Pavlischek lectured at Providence Magazine’s Christianity & National Security Conference on Nov. 3, 2018. [Applause] Actually,…

Keith Pavlischek Christianity and National Security 2017: Christianity & Pacifism

The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference. Keith Pavlischek discusses the history of pacifism…