Just War Theory and Decisionmaking in a Democracy

Authors

John Langan S.J.

Abstract

George Will began a recent column by recounting a celebrated episode from that disastrous and indomitable year 1940. A British commander sent this cryptic three-word message as his troops were being evacuated: "But if not." Will makes the point that the words were immediately seen to be a quotation from Daniel 3, 18, the reply of the three young men to Kiug Nebuchadnezzar who had threatened to cast them into a fiery furnace for their refusal to worship the golden image he had erected.

Recommended Citation

Langan, John S.J. (1985) "Just War Theory and Decisionmaking in a Democracy," Naval War College Review: Vol. 38: No. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol38/iss3/6