![]() First is the development of rules on the regulation of hostilities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which we argue constitute and calibrate military force in broadly legitimate and ethical terms that prefigure the post-Vietnam War era of humanisation that animates Moyn’s analysis. ![]() ![]() Our argument rests on two developments in humane war that Moyn dismisses or overlooks. But we suggest that the scope of humanity in war is broader and more complicated than Moyn suggests. Moyn presents a compelling account of the costs associated with humanising warfare, not least by connecting it with the demise of peace and anti-war politics. takes great pride in conducting war ‘humanely’, but is humane warfare an achievement to celebrate or a cynical contortion of incommensurable principals? This chapter reviews Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War and advances its own arguments in relation to the concept of humanity. ![]()
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