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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.

I selected just cause and right intention for jus as bellum and distinction and military necessity for jus in bello because I applied these criteria while analyzing the wars originally. The three wars I chose were Grenada, Boxer Rebellion and War in Bosina-Herzengovina, because these fit the criteria I chose. These criteria will be used to analyze these wars to show that they truly were just.

The three wars I selected fit the jus ad bellum criteria the best because each of them had a just cause. In each of the wars, there were innocent lives that were threatened. Each of them had the right intention. In the case of the War in Bosina-Herzengovina, the opposing side was threatening genocide.

The Jus ad bello criteria applied to these wars because they all needed military because the opposing force wouldn’t take peace as means to stop. People were being killed therefore people needed protection. No one was intentionally hurt, nor were there any instances where the actions they were taking could have taken innocent lives. Hence, distinction was applied in these wars.

Out of the three, the War in Bosina-Herzengovina was the most just. The opposing side was attempting to commit genocide, and the United States had  “ promise[d] to never let genocide happen again”(Michael M & Shea S) War in Bosina-Herzengovina).  The Boxer Rebellion was the second just because there wasn’t as much of a threat to life as the Bosina-Herzengovina war but there was more of a threat than Grenada. During the Boxer Rebellion, foreigners in China were in danger**,** they were  “ [burning] Christian churches and foreign embassies,’ and they had already killed many foreigners and even the German ambassador”(Brooks M. & Lexie M.) Boxer Rebellion). RUBRIC: A quality essay will

Explain why you selected the two jus ad bellum and the two jus in bello the criteria, criteria identified with little explanation

Use the __four__ criteria to analyze why the three small wars are "just wars", attempts to use criteria to analyze the wars

Support your analysis of each war with evidence from the Small Wars Wiki, no evidence used to support sweeping claims

Rank the three small wars and explain why one war is more just than the other two, some evidence used and reasoning is not always clear

Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, listed without a general rationale

Organize you writing in extended power paragraphs, paragraphs are not organized this way

Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase, not done for all 3 wars

Cite evidence __internally__ and in a Works Cited. internal citation correct in paragraph 3, WC not done

Please write with an academic voice, not in the first person.