War and Murder

Last week, the news was going around that a 94-year old German man, Reinhold Hanning, had been convicted of accessory to murder. And this was not any old homicide; this was the murder of around 170,000 people in Auschwitz, the concentration camp in which Hanning had been a guard during 1944. Quoting the news: The prosecution’s …

Master Sun said:

War is A grave affair of state; It is a place Of life and death, A road To survival and extinction, A matter To be pondered carefully. - Sun-Tzu, The Art of War This is how my thesis will start, I think. It's not always a good idea to start with a quote, and I'm not …

Justified Killing

One of the most basic - if not The Most Basic - rules of war is "do not kill civilians". In the language of just war theory, this is referred to as The Principle of Discrimination; the principle is codified in the Geneva Conventions and forms the first rule of Customary International Humanitarian Law. Despite its …