- Just Cause for a nation to to go war is to deter aggression, alleviate problems, and promote peace with other countries.
- Competent Authority is the authorization by government and military officials to go to war.
- Right Intention includes diminishing problems so turmoil can be resolved and peace can thrive.
- Last Resort - War itself is the last resort for problem solving. It comes after negotiating and reasoning with the enemy.
- Limited Objective is to to go war in order to complete tasks that will ensure safety of individuals residing in that country. It must solve problems that provoked war in the first place. Anything else would be beyond the objective.
- Reasonable Amount of Success means that if a country is going to war, then they better have high chances of winning the war and destroy all of the issues that started the confrontation.
Just in bello includes:
- Discrimination is defined as military forces must be applied only against the political leadership and military forces of the State. Civilians should not be harmed.
- Proportionality is explained as the damage at the end of the war should only be resent in areas in which fighting took place. In order for the war to be just, armies cannot harm buildings such as hospitals.
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