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Michael Walzer has a new one called Arguing War that I was able to read a few chapters from. It seems to do the same thing, but talks about more recent wars and even terrorism. If I'm not mistaken, the book Aleph mentioned is from 1978, and talks about Vietnam mostly. Not that it's not worth reading of course. Arguing War is bright orange - you can't miss it.
It suffers from a bit of ethnocentrism, but it goes a long way towards analyzing war - in its causes and its execution - on an ethical standard. It was interesting how he categorized the war in Iraq as unjust from the US perspective, but also unjust from Hussein's perspective, since he was sacrificing people for defense of his regime (which wasn't exactly serving the country to the best of its capacity). It's quick reading, especially for a writer who's got extensive philosophical training; philosophy texts are rarely easy reading.
[ 11-17-2004, 03:50 AM: Message edited by: Lucern ]
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