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The experience of war

Christopher J. Eberle (USNA): God and War: Some Exploratory Questions. Daniel Statman (Haifa): Can Wars Be Fought Justly? The Necessity Condition Put to the Test; and Supreme Emergencies and the Continuum Problem. David J. Luban (Georgetown): War as Punishment. Kenneth Anderson (American): Targeted Killing and Drone Warfare: How We Came to Debate Whether There is a "Legal Geography of War". Sirus Kashefi (York): A Philosophical and Legal Look at State Violence Through War. Nicholas Tsagourias (Glasgow): Non-State Actors and the Use of Force. James Kraska (Naval War College): Prize Law. Michael Howard describes the strategy, the art and the experience of war — from the pins in the map to the horrors of the front line. Is rape inevitable in war? Sexual violence may be used in combat to build bonds between soldiers, not simply to terrorize civilians. Is war over? It appears that war, that is to say, "interstate industrial war" or "regular war", is coming to an end, or so we are led to believe. An excerpt from War Is a Lie by David Swanson. An interview with Laura Dickinson, author of Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Hypocrisy and war: When our common humanity is under threat, even if we can’t do everything we should, shouldn’t we at least do what we can? A review of Guerrillas in History by Lewis H. Gann. A review of Broken Bodies Shattered Minds: A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan by Ronald Glasser.