Though soldiers and military leaders are bound by Just War Tradition (JWT), members of Congress and civilian leaders are not. The passage of HR 1009, is one step toward bridging this gap. 

American thinking has often been shaped by Just War Theory, if implicitly. Last year, Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-CA) introduced HR 1009 that clarifies and makes explicit the American commitment to the just war tradition. 

In March of 2022, I introduced H.Res. 1009 to propose implementing structured deliberation on the most serious and grave responsibility…

After years of appeasement and failing to reckon with a reborn Russian imperialism, the U.S. and NATO nations are awaking from their moral and military slumber.

Understanding the Chinese idea of Just War is essential to understanding Chinese military doctrine.

As should already be clear from this series’ first three essays (here, here, and here), the Christian realist just war…

Two op/ed pieces, appearing in recent days in the Wall Street Journal, take very different views of ending the war…

Ukraine is under no obligation to surrender.

In 1983, Just War scholar William O’Brien wrote: “The greatest threats to the free world do not arise from the…