Ohlin,David Jeans;May, Larry; Finkelestein, Claire.

Weighing lives in war / edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein. - First edition. - vi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm - Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law Series . - Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The dispensable lives of soldiers / Sharp wars are brief / Humanity, necessity, and the rights of soldiers / The death of combatants : superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering in contemporary warfare / Proportionate defense / Proportionate killing : using traditional jus in bello conditions to model the relationship between liability and lesser-evil justifications for killing in war / Compensation and proportionality in war / A theory of jus in bello proportionality / Proportionality in warfare as a political norm / The equality of combatants in asymmetric war / Rewriting the AUMF : bringing guidance to executive decisions on combatancy and returning the US to the path of the War Convention / Weighing unjust lives / Joint and combined targeting : structure and process / Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein -- Gabriella Blum -- Jens David Ohlin -- Larry May -- Michael L. Gross -- Jeff McMahon -- Jovana Davidovic -- Saba Bazargan-Forward -- Adil Ahmad Haque -- Ariel Colonomos -- Claire Finkelstein -- Jon Todd -- Andrew T. Forcehimes -- Michael Schmitt, Jeffrey Biller, Sean C. Fahey, David S. Goddard, and Chad Highfill. Introduction /

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War (International law)
War--Moral and ethical aspects.
War and society.
Just war doctrine.
Military ethics.
Just war doctrine.
Military ethics.
War and society.
War (International law)
War--Moral and ethical aspects.

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