MODR 1760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Modern Warfare

• School: York University
• Department: Modes Of Reasoning
• Course: MODR 1760
• Professor: Barry Allen

Document Summary

Definitions: terrorism - the deliberate use of force against noncombatants, which can be expected to cause wider fear among them, for political ends. 1. 1. 1 practice and common versions of just war theory result in a majority of all war deaths being noncombatants. 1. 1. 2 war is generally highly dangerous directly and indirectly for noncombatants. 1. 1. 3 modern warfare and widespread harm to noncombatants are virtually inextricable. 1. 1 practices and common versions of just war theory being employed and perpetrated imply they are not morally objectionable: the use of force that leads to casualties among ordinary noncombatants is not morally objectionable in conventional war. 2. 1. 1 terrorists rarely have had the capacity to employ violence on a mass scale. 2. 1 the brutal reality of war for noncombatants indicates that in general they have more to fear from conventional war than terrorism. 2. 2. 1 states are relatively unlikely to be conventionally attacked.