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Comparison Essay: How Just Were the U.S.’s Small Wars?

The Just War Theory has two parts. Study the Just War handout and select the two most significant criteria for **//jus ad bellum//** and two most significant criteria for **//jus in bello//**. With these criteria in mind, select one war from each of your three tables that best meets these criteria. In the essay, you will analyze, compare and rank these three wars.

Write an essay that compares the three small wars and analyzes how well all three meet the four criteria that you believe are most important. Based on this comparison, select the __"most just"__ of the three wars and explain the reasons for the choice. Also, explain why your __second choice__ fell short and were not as just as your __first choice__ but is more just than your __third choice__.

RUBRIC: A quality essay will Explain why you selected **jus ad bellum** and **jus in bello** the criteria, Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, Organize you writing in extended power paragraphs, Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase, Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited.

===After reviewing the criteria of a jus ad bellum I selected just cause and right intentions because these two subjects are applied in almost every small war. As for jus in bello I selected distinction and military necessity because I feel as if they are the two more necessary of the three and they are important to understand when studying a war. I choose three wars that I will be analyzing using the four criterias from jus in bello and jus ad bellum, these wars are, Vietnam war, Grenada, and Rwanda.=== ===Now I will be analyzing these three wars using the the two jus ad bellum topics of, just cause and right intention. First I'm going to start with just cause and right intentions from these three wars. In the Grenada war the just cause was that we had reason to believe that 1000 of our troops had been captured and in danger. So with that information we acted upon it and invaded Grenada to rescue our troops, this shows right intentions because we had the right intention to help our own military when we over threw the base they were at. In the war of Vietnam, the just cause was that we had to help from the spread of communism which was a huge issue at that time, we allied with France to help them withstand the communistic ways. Although the public had mixed messages about this war I feel as if it was the right intentions to help contain the communism. Lastly the war of Rwanda, even though the U.S never actually invaded Rwanda they had the right intentions of creating peace with the Hutus and the Tutsis and just cause of helping them out and focusing on their needs by not invading and killing people. Of these three wars the one war that really sticks out with these two criterias is Grenada because the just cause was just so strong to save our own people compared to stopping communism and creating peace, because no matter what your own come before others. As for the right intentions we had a picture perfect intention to help save our people and nothing these. For second place I choose the war of Vietnam because its just cause was very reasonable but not as much as the Grenada but its more probable then the war of Rwanda, or stopping the spread of communism as to creating peace. The right intentions created arguments within the country but its really an opinion, but I think that they had the right intentions of helping France. Then Rwanda was last, but it still fits these two criterias very well, just in a different way. The just cause was to help create peace between the Hutus and the Tutsis and that is a good just cause just not as strong as the other two. We definitely had the right intentions to help these two also.=== ===As for the jus in bello criterias, I choose distinction and military necessity, and I'll be explaining these two in the three wars I chose. First off, the war of Grenada, the military necessity was very much needed because if we didn't use our military how would we have invaded Grenada to rescue our troops in danger. Then for distinction, was perfect because we focused on getting in, getting our troops and getting out, we didn't target anybody who wasn't combatants. For the war of Vietnam, the military necessity was what really created the argument of, why should we be over there? but to follow our right intentions we needed our military to help contain the communists. As for distinction we for he most part only targeted the combatants and no civilians were targeted. Rwanda didn't really apply to these two criterias as they did in the last two because we didn't send in our military so there was no necessity for sending in our military. There was distinction because we were helping them create peace, not harming. Out of these three wars for number one I chose Grenada again because it had a massive need for military necessity to rescue our troops, as to no military in Rwanda and not as much needed in Vietnam. Also the distinction was perfect as I said before, it was a get in and get out mission, as to in Vietnam not so much. For number two I chose Vietnam because its not as fitting as Grenada and Rwanda didn't apply all that much to distinction and military necessity. Then that leaves Rwanda for third because we had a just cause and right intentions just didn't need our military and that eliminates distinction and military necessity.===


 * RUBRIC: A quality essay will **
 * • **** Explain why you selected the two jus ad bellum and the two jus in bello the criteria, **** criteria identified and defined **
 * •Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", **** criteria used to analyze the wars **
 * •Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, **** no evidence cited although your reasoning is factual correct--cite your sources **
 * •Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, **** reasoning is focused and clear **
 * •Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, **** listed, some comparison offered **
 * •Organize you writing in ** **extended power paragraphs****,** ** competently used **
 * •Identify the source and establish its ** **credibility** **with an appositive phrase,** ** not done **
 * •Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited. **** not done **