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Just War: Fighting Justly

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Conduct in war answers its own conditions: discrimination — noncombatants are never targets — and proportionality — no more force than the objective is worth.

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The doctrine's oldest line, drawn by Aquinas's heirs: the enemy is the soldier's problem; the village is never the mission, whatever the mission costs.

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