Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palestinians tend to the wounded after an Israeli strike hit a building next to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 10, ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...

When policy analysts argue that Ukraine should stop fighting because it cannot realistically hope to repel Russia and reclaim its occupied territories, they often implicitly or explicitly reference ...

Four days after the U.S. military invasion of Iraq, Drew Christiansen, S.J., asked in the pages of America: “Whither the ‘Just War’?” (March 24, 2003). Now that President Donald Trump, after amassing ...

People gather to donate blood in Beirut on Sept. 18, 2024, after pager detonations across Lebanon. The pagers exploded nearly simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria in an apparent Israeli operation ...

As the world processes reports of Israeli airstrikes against the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear weapons program, Christians should think carefully about how to respond. On one hand, we lament ...

The U.S. military’s successful capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ignited a fierce political debate over the Trump administration's legal authority to conduct such an operation. While ...

“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building.

Many Christian responses to the Israel-Hamas conflict lean on just war theory. It’s well intentioned—but deeply flawed. Just war theory is a venerable Christian tradition. It is the philosophical ...

We are veterans who served in just and unjust wars. U.S. military operations in Afghanistan were in self-defense and a necessary response to the 9/11 attacks. The Iraq War was an unnecessary war of ...

Michael Walzer is universally regarded—and rightly so—as the preeminent explicator of just war moral philosophy; no serious analysis of this topic can fail to acknowledge Walzer’s classic 1977 book, ...