In March 2010, a North Korean submarine fired torpedo against the South ship Cheonan, which resulted in deaths of 46 sailors. Is its surprise attack justified? The academic examination has rarely been made over whether Korea’s use military force is justified this battle. As just war theory to date dealt mostly with major wars, it also can guide us judge limited warfare or not. principles are co...

Abstract Benbaji and Statman’s contractarian ethics of war offers a powerful new philosophical defence orthodox conclusions against revisionist criticism. I present two-pronged argument in reply. First, contractarianism yields what call ‘decent theory,’ theory which between decent states is paradigmatic. argue, by contrast, that should treat wars indecent as paradigmatic, resulting Rawlsian alt...