War is an intractable issue that always seems to be in the news. At any given moment more than a dozen wars are likely be in progress around the world — and every decade the major powers get involved in some conflict somewhere. Popular writers shoot off their thoughts on the latest crises, but often their contributions soon begin to look outdated. My book A Philosophy of War seeks to explain war rather than wars and attempts to produce a more durable explanation of war's nature and origins. Most philosophers who have written on war have provided singular explanations of … Continue reading A Philosophy of War