ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates a tight conceptual circle that is vital to understanding the role of justice in war. Like any conceptual circle, any chosen “beginning” is also an end, and the four considerations adumbrated are thus of a piece: if jus ad bellum and jus in bello require jus post bellum to ensure that wars do not recur, then jus ante bellum is all the more perquisite: i.e., the adequate preparation of warriors to fight only in just wars, and to do so only in compliance with the requirements of just conduct, including finally, equipping them to end wars well. All of this illustrates “right intention,” in the sense that a conscious, intentional stance on the part of the nation, its military organizations, and its educational system are required to work synchronously to achieve these goals.
