Preemptive war: implications of the Bush and Rumsfeld Doctrines

The "Doctrine of Just War" and its incorporation into the law of nations plants out measures by which states can justice the legality and morality of war as well as the acts associated with the use of force. The author examines this tradition in international law, a nearly four centuries-old collection of laws that seeks to limit violence, then applies the principles to the "Bush Doctrine," the motive for a United States preemptive attack against Iraq and the "Rumsfeld Doctrine," the means that made the war operational.

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Les than three month after the tragic incidents of September 11, 2001, I arrived