Just War Doctrine and Islam's War Against the West By Thomas Snodgrass, Colonel, USAF (retired)

"The West is killing itself by applying Judeo-Christian notions of Just War in a perverse and self-destructive way. In this article, SANE's Director of Military Affairs, Col. Snodgrass, brings clarity and precision to this discussion.

The jus ad bellum criteria are (1) just cause in terms of self-defense and protection of innocents; (2) right intention to bring justice and peace; (3) proper authority and public declaration meaning that the declaration of war is executed only by heads of state within a legal framework; (4) last resort after other options have been seriously considered, although not necessarily tried; (5) probability of success to block violence which is going to be futile; and (6) macro proportionality which weighs expected universal good to accrue from its prosecuting the war against the expected universal evils that will result. The jus in bello criteria are (1) micro proportionality that weighs the use of a particular weapon or tactic to determine that it is proportional to the threat; and (2) discrimination between combatants and non-combatants."

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