The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Ethics of War: Just War Reflections

Title: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Ethics of War: Just War Reflections Author: J. Daryl Charles  Publisher: Stone Tower Press Number of Pages: 196 Book Dimensions: 6”x9” Binding Style: Paperback  Paperback ISBN: 979-8-9868172-9-3 Book Description:   The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a bold act of aggression and escalation in a conflict that began in 2014. Many observers, political leaders, and military analysts believed that the invasion would lead to the quick defeat and capitulation by the Ukrainian government and military. Those expectations were wrong.  In a series of 17 essays in the first half of the book, published during the course of the war and brought together in this volume, J. Daryl Charles writes of the moral and ethical aspects of the war as well as its political dimensions and meaning for the West. In the second half of the book he considers the conflict through the lens of the just war tradition and argues that the defense of Ukraine i