When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Just war theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

    A 2017 study found that the just war tradition can be traced as far back as to Ancient Egypt. [9] Egyptian ethics of war usually centered on three main ideas, these including the cosmological role of Egypt, the pharaoh as a divine office and executor of the will of the gods, and the superiority of the Egyptian state and population over all other states and peoples.

  3. Affirmative defense - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense

    In an affirmative defense, the defendant may concede that they committed the alleged acts, but they prove other facts which, under the law, either justify or excuse their otherwise wrongful actions, or otherwise overcomes the plaintiff's claim. In criminal law, an affirmative defense is sometimes called a justification or excuse defense. [4]

  4. Jus ad bellum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_ad_bellum

    Therefore they put their faith in the gods alongside the pharaoh to have just reasons to engage in war. These include self defense, defense of their allies and against evil powers. [3] Beyond the Egyptians, there have also been tracings of these core just war and jus ad bellum elements in Ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant and Hatti. [3]

  5. Justification and excuse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_and_excuse

    A defense of justification is the product of society's determination that the actual existence of certain circumstances will operate to make proper and legal what otherwise would be criminal conduct. A defense of excuse, contrarily, does not make legal and proper conduct which ordinarily would result in criminal liability; instead, it openly ...

  6. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military...

    Encirclement – Both a strategy and tactic designed to isolate and surround enemy forces; Ends, Ways, Means, Risk – Strategy is much like a three legged stool of ends, ways, means balanced on a plane of varying degree of risk; Enkulette – A strategy used often in the jungle that aims at attacking the enemy from behind.

  7. National Defense Strategy (United States) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Strategy...

    The NDS translates and refines the National Security Strategy (NSS) (produced by the U.S. President's staff and signed by the President) into broad military guidance for military planning, military strategy, force posturing, force constructs, force modernization, etc. It is expected to be produced every four years and to be generally publicly ...

  8. Military strategy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_strategy

    Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. [1] Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, [2] was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", [3] or "the art of arrangement" of troops.

  9. Military doctrine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_doctrine

    [11] The official definition of strategy by the United States Department of Defense is: "Strategy is a prudent idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve national or multinational objectives." [12] Military strategy provides the rationale for military operations.