By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 22, 2022
I’ve just become aware of and read the 2020 book by Ned Dobos, Ethics, Security, and The War-Machine: The True Cost of the Military. It makes a pretty strong case for the abolition of militaries, even while concluding that it may or may not have done so, that the matter should be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Dobos sets aside the question of whether any war can be justified, arguing instead that “there may be cases where the costs and