The fog of victory / Gabriella Blum
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The fog of victory
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Gabriella Blum
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Contribution dans le cadre du symposium : Just and unjust warriors : marking the 35th anniversary of Walzer's Just and unjust wars
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What does victory mean today? How do we know who 'won' the war and what does the winner win by winning? This article uses the prism of victory to view the transformation of the goals, means, and targets of war, and assesses the applicability of the conventional Just War doctrine (through the traditional laws of war) to the modern battlefield. Specifically, the article claims that the military and civilian components of war have grown so intertwined in both the conduct and ending of hostilities that the laws of war, with their emphasis on combat, are hard-pressed to offer a normative yardstick for a just modern war.
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