ABSTRACT
Three of the most contentious issues in just war theory are raised and debated in these chapters: (1) Are soldiers fighting in a just war and soldiers fighting in an unjust war moral equals on the battlefield? (2) What risks do soldiers have to take to reduce the risks they impose on civilians? (3) Does the level of required risk depend on the nationality of the civilians? One might also ask whether justified risk levels depend on the justice of the war the soldiers are fighting. But that question seems the same as the first and, in any case, it is set aside in David Luban’s admirable engagement with the other two questions about risk. I would guess that in most discussions of risk, the writers are thinking only about their own side, though presumably they wouldn’t object if the other side adopted their proposals.
