Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft - The Principle of National Security Stewardship

This book analyses the concept of military necessity and just war thinking, and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

List of contents

1. Returning Military Necessity to the Jus in Bello 2. Natural Law and the Just War Ethic: Reaffirming Common Moral Traditions 3. Military Necessity as Distinct Jus in Bello Principle: A Classical Just War Perspective 4. What is Military Necessity? A Defense of the Marginal Interpretation 5. Inevitable and Indispensable: A conceptual approach to Necessity in War and Conflict 6. Military Necessity, Catholic Thinking, and the Great Wars 7. Necessity, Convenience, and Point of View: Military Necessity in Just War 8. Military Necessity and Realism: Comparing Permission and Limitation in Christian, Islamic, and Hindu Thought 9. The Military Necessity of Ethics 10. Operation Wrath of God: Illegal but Necessary 11. Military Necessity in the Gray Zone 12. Military Necessity as Moral Imperative: Just War and Hiroshima 13. Military Necessity: The Road Ahead

About the author

Eric Patterson is scholar-at-large and former dean of the School of Government at Regent University. He is author or editor of 20 books, including, most recently, Just War and Christianity: A Concise Introduction (2023) and Just American Wars (2019).
Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy and serves as a non-resident research fellow at the College of Leadership and Ethics in the U.S. Naval War College. He is author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Eric Livecche Patterson
• Assisted by: Marc LiVecche (Editor), Patterson Eric (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032487120
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248712-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: War, Conflict and Ethics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Military and defence strategy, Armed Conflict, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science