For decades, West Point cadets have been assigned to read Michael Walzer’s book “Just and Unjust Wars” as a primer on what the military academy describes as “the ethical and moral dimensions of warfare.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth didn’t attend West Point. He’s a Princeton grad who joined the National Guard and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he wrote extensively about the rules of war before becoming secretary of defense — and his view was essentially the opposite of philosophers like Walzer. Instead of counseling careful norms of behavior, Hegseth railed at “the folly of international law, and the crazy maze of rules of engagement.”
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