Preemptive war

America’s 1st Preemptive War Having finally won some freedom to mold its own foreign policy Jefferson now had to deal with some Barbary pirates from Morocco, Tunis, Algiers and Tripoli. When the pasha of Tripoli cut down the flagpole at U.S. consulate there it was a direct act of war. Because of this Jefferson warned all Barbary starts that they were at war with the U.S. Seeking international coalitions from Europe, Jefferson was denied. So, in 1804, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur went ashore with only 8 U.S. Marines and set fire to a captured fright. After this William Eaton led an exposition through the dessert collecting locals that had detested the pasha. This and the presence of the powerful British fleet posed a threat to the pirates “lucrative” slave trade. This was only the beginning of America’s major diplomatic headache. Because the British didn’t want the U.S trading with the French, the British set up blockades. If you tried to run these blockades they would capture your ship and impress your men. In 1807 the U.S Chesapeake clashed with the British Leopard leaving four Americans dead.…

Essay Outline and Annotated Bibliography Does Article 51 of the UN Charter violate the customary law of anticipatory self-defence? Where does the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence fit in? Introduction The United Nations was created to prevent another world war, and to maintain peace and cooperation in the international system. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, failed to maintain peace after the First World War, due to its inability to prohibit the use of force. Learning for this…

birth to international law. The ultimate goal for the creation of universal law emerged from the anarchic world we live in. Unlike domestic law, international law has no global government enforcing the rules. Since rules provide order and help mitigate conflict, an effort emerged to properly deal with conflict among states. International law is created through international agreements and treaties between states as well as normative customary practices and principles common to states interests.…

leading up to 9/11(Hoffman, 2002, p.305), it did directly lead to what we now call the Bush Doctrine. In short, this doctrine is the new U.S. foreign military policy where it gave the president can send military personnel into another sovereign state for the purpose of self-defense through preemptive strikes (Kelnner, 2004, p.422). In other words, removing the threat before the threat materializes. This doctrine ignores the advice of not just several high-end generals (Kellner, 2004, p.418), but…

S. and it’s allies, especially in Africa and the Middle East. One only need look at ISIL’s exploits in Syria and Iraq to come to this realization. Based upon an likely assessment that VEOs will continue to metastasize and operate liberally in countries and regions with governance issues such as Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and the horn of Africa and plan attacks against the U.S. and its allies, counter terror/ special operations forces are a must have capability. Special Operations Command, which has…

Vietnam War, the Just War Theory is used as a brief framework coupled with major scholarly discussions concerning the Vietnam War. Philosophers and historians over the centuries have shaped the Just War Theory to help give a clear cut guide to justifying International Wars with a significant formulation contributed by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his work Summa Theologicae. According to the theory, the moral justification of every international war is divided into two parts: the reasons for fighting…

policy principles of US created by president George W. Bush in the wake 9/11 attacks. The doctrine dictated that the US had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves. Basically, this doctrine gives the US the justification for striking a country first if that country is deemed a threat to its security. One of the most important aspects of the bush doctrine was preventive war, which stated that America had every right to invade a foreign…

Rationalist Explanations for War, written by James Fearon in 1995, provides an argumentation that launching a war is costly, thus there is an ex ante bargaining range that prompt to reach an agreement. This agreement will not only reflect the possible aftermath of a war, but also avoid the cost of it. That the two belligerent will make an agreement before the war which reflect the possible results of war is always better than a war plan. As Fearon argues that war is always ex post inefficient.…

The basic requirement of jus ad bellum is possessing just cause. The clearest example of just cause would be the right of self-defense: if a nation is attacked it has the right to defend itself. By extension, this also means the right to defend other nations from aggression to meet treaty obligations or under the direction of an international regime such as the United Nations. By further extrapolation, the right of self-defense allows for preemptive action if an attack is imminent.5 This does…

foundational principles of Just War Theory and generated scrutiny around ethical behavior in combatant environments. Just War Theory refers to a set of rules that a sovereign state is expected to follow before engaging in war, during war, and after war—jus ad bellum, jus in bellum, and jus post bellum, respectively. With the increased employment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone strikes under the Obama Administration, one may doubt the morality of these attacks. Specifically, the aims of…