The battle of Hechtel in 1944 provides a case study in the virtue of courage, showing both the value of aggressive daring and the danger of courage without prudence
David HeinAugust 25, 2026
The latest entry in the Gabriel Allon spy series by Daniel Silva takes on themes of gray zone conflict in modern warfare
Eric PattersonAugust 6, 2026
The just war tradition goes back millennia to Aquinas and Augustine, but is it still relevant in the age of nuclear war?
Dean C. CurryAugust 5, 2026
Technology can never fully supplant human courage, that how we fight reflects our character, and that military force must always be used in conjunction with all the levers of national power.
Timothy MallardJuly 31, 2026
The tradition of realist statecraft in the Old Testament is part and parcel of the Bible’s broader narrative about the importance of the nations in salvation history
James DiddamsJuly 29, 2026
For America’s Founding Fathers, every avenue of peaceful redress with the British Parliament had to be sought before the War of Independence broke out
J. Daryl CharlesJuly 20, 2026
What is war? When can going to war be an act of love? And when does refusal to go to war constitute a sin, if ever?
Randall FowlerJune 25, 2026
Despite Pope Leo’s words in Magnifica Humanitas, just war theory will remain necessary so long as human beings are sinful, tyrants exist, and evil regimes oppress their own people while threatening the international order
J. Daryl CharlesJune 5, 2026
Objections to the Iran war that hinge on the absence of an immediate and certain threat overlook that the Islamic Republic has, through decades of proxy warfare and its pursuit of nuclear weapons, consistently sought to kill Americans and destabilize the Middle East
Michael LuccheseApril 28, 2026
