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Bad premise war is a crime against humanity, or eh, should be.

• dukeluke 10y ago
  As is screwing up the global economy for greater profits.
• Coding_Cat 10y ago
  Wars are fought not only by the aggressors. And the aggressor can be acting to prevent amoral behavior (attacking a state which is engaging in slavery/genocide of its people, but one might argue that is an act of war in the moral sense). If one accepts that acting in a war in such a capacity is the more moral choice than inaction, then it makes sense to talk about the ethics of war, such as: when is lethal force against enemy combatants acceptable, what weapons of war have justifiable risks?
• zanny 10y ago
  When has there been an ethical war? Not if the art of war can have ethics in conduct, but where the war itself was a just one. The only just wars are revolutionary ones, if any. Except revolution today, like the Arab Spring, isn't done in a formal war. Hell, no real revolution is done like that - even the American Revolution was predominantly guerilla tactics. The wars that obey codified ethics are always the formal wars that were started for purely unethical reasons.