Jus in bello

In this chapter, I examine a recent challenge to Just War Theory that concerns the commonly accepted moral separateness between the moral rules applicable to going to war, i.e. jus ad bellum, and the moral rules pertaining to how one should fight a war, i.e. jus in bello. More specifically, I inquire into why some contemporary Just War Theorists reject this moral separateness between these two sets of rules and a specific rule of war supported by this separateness often referred to as “the moral equality of soldiers.”1