As nuclear rhetoric rises and drones change who pays the price, Navy SEAL David Rutherford walks through 2,000 years of just war thinking from Cicero, Augustine and Aquinas to Michael Walzer and Jeff McMahan. Then he weighs the realists who say power is all that matters, and ends with the questions every American should ask before the next war.
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0:00 Intro: The Drums of War
7:06 Drones, Nukes and Netanyahu's AI Image
15:00 Cicero: Can War Ever Be Just?
20:40 Black Rifle Coffee
31:21 Augustine: The Sin Isn't the Sword
42:38 Aquinas' Test and the Moving Goalposts on Iran
54:08 The Strong Do What They Can
1:02:31 Geneva, Nukes and Who Pays
1:19:53 Would You Send Your Neighbor's Child?
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