Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft: The Principle of National Security Stewardship - Paperback

by Eric Patterson (Editor), Marc Livecche (Editor)

This book analyses the concept of military necessity and just war thinking, and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders.

Author Biography

Eric Patterson is scholar-at-large and former dean of the School of Government at Regent University. He is author or editor of 20 books, including, most recently, Just War and Christianity: A Concise Introduction (2023) and Just American Wars (2019).

Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy and serves as a non-resident research fellow at the College of Leadership and Ethics in the U.S. Naval War College. He is author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury (2021).