Laws of war

War and Combatants When two different parties have opposite opinions, there is always a confliction somewhere. In the case of American Sniper, there is a scene where the sniper is in position and looking out for his troops that are passing through town. The sniper is up on top of a building and he sees two civilians in his sights. One female civilian who appears to be a young adult and one male civilian who appears to be young about ten years old. The two are seen walking out of a building and…

arise from the different ways in which people can be killed in war. Another worry people have of drone strikes are tolls on their operators, that a soldier could end up with a video game mentality piloting a drone. According to Christof Heyns a professor of Human Rights Law, “ those operating drones are many thousands of miles away from the battlefield, outside of harm’s way, and so they are removed from the realities of violence and war on the ground… In addition, they view battlefield just…

Witnessing pictures of children and women being killed by bombings makes me think, how can this be acceptable? How can we be letting this happen? The unjust events happening in Syria Thesis: The Syrian conflict in Aleppo violates the principles of Just War Theory and The UN Declaration of Human rights because of the incredible negative impact on the Syrian civilians. The background of the Syrian conflict begins all the way back to 2011. The conflict began because of tension between the Syrian…

information gathering works puts a shadow on it because when there are innocent civilians dead, including children, because of the information gathered, the CIA is doing it wrong. The Pakistan Court is one that ruled CIA drone strikes as an illegal war crime. Before the Peshawar High Court ruled the illegality of the CIA drone strikes , the United Nations fact found that such drone strikes are in the violation of…

controlled aircrafts that are used in attack strikes. To most people in the United States, drones are the future. Companies like Amazon have started using drones for their own use, and in the near future they will start replacing human-operated vehicles. In war, they use predator drones. It needs no pilot, and is relatively cheaper than any other in air device. For us, drones are perfect. They do the job for us. We are told that predator and reaper drones have taken out “suspected militants” in…

do, but in the case that someone may pose a bigger threat in the future, I believe it is justifiable. Additionally, I believe in some cases the doctrine of if you kill you shall be killed as punishment. Statman believes that war on terror is much different than conventional war and must be dealt with differently, and that the West is not adequately prepared for these means of threat. Statman immediately catches my attention when he states “… tanks, jets, and submarines are helpful when…

overlooked by almost all nations. Under the just war theory, once an enemy surrenders, they are not a threat to you anymore. It pretty much implies that it is wrong to torture and mistreat your enemies under almost any circumstance. As we know, many nations do not abide by this. We hear about prisoners being waterboarded, strapped to a mattress frame and electrocuted, and all sorts of horrible things. Hannah Gold from the Washington Speculator interviewed Eric Fair about his memoir about…

duty in war and why it is necessary to perform one 's duty despite the cost. However this raises the question of whether the war in the Gita was justified. The god Krishna who performs the role of charioteer for Arjuna believes that the war is just and convinces him to fight. There is a theory known as the “just war theory” which details the legitimacy beginning a conflict and proper actions during the conflict. This theory consists of two major parts (Jus Ad Bellum the right to go to war, and…

compelling arguments connecting faith and nonresistance. John Howard Yoder lays out the argument that violence is an offense directly against God that cannot be justified. Just War Theory is often raised as a sway for Christians to commit to nonviolence except in certain circumstances. Even if violence could be moral, just war theory does not work, especially in this modern age. Pacifism can result in suffering and even death, but striking back is never justified. As a Christian you may have to…

Campbell states, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be” (Vonnegut v). Campbell pretends to be a Nazi and his propaganda become well known around the world. He sits in an Israeli prison awaiting his trial for his war crimes. While Campbell is known as a Nazi and an American spy, he becomes a character in one of his plays and he is in his own world of believing his actions were his choice, but he is really a puppet to the Nazis and Americans with…