According to the first sentence of the U.S. Army’s 2019 People Strategy, “winning matters.”
Indeed, winning matters most. A nation that wages war with little or no regard for satisfying its casus belli — or reason for going to war — is a country cruelly engaged in the pointless destruction of human life.
But to win, nations — including the United States — must be free to avail themselves of all lawful means of waging and winning war. This makes it all the more bewildering that, when considering Israel’s fight against Hamas, some in the international law community seem determined to distort the law of armed conflict in a way that needlessly binds combatants’ hands and jeopardizes Israel’s chance at decisive victory.
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