From Robert Mihara, Strategy Bridge: “Jus in bello and jus ad bellum require an explicit understanding of what gives one’s survival moral standing and what should supersede the primacy of moral and physical self-preservation. Self-sacrifice as a first principle helps strategists to remain faithful to the essential characteristics of a nation’s vital national interests, and it can prevent them from getting lost in moral absolutism when taken as a first among equals rather than as an overriding imperative. In other words, an attitude of self-sacrifice enables strategists to make strategic choices. This principle of self-abnegation is of foremost importance to strategists because its antithesis in limited wars effectively precludes the proper function of strategy and thereby undermines the utility of war.”
The Necessity of Self-Sacrifice
From Robert Mihara, Strategy Bridge: “Jus in bello and jus ad bellum require an explicit understanding of what gives one’s survival moral standing and what should supersede the primacy of moral and physical self-preservation. Self-sacrifice as a first principle helps strategists to remain faithful to the essential characteristics of a nation’s vital national interests, and it can prevent them from getting lost in moral absolutism when taken as a first among equals rather than as an overriding imperative. In other words, an attitude of self-sacrifice enables strategists to make strategic choices. This principle of self-abnegation is of foremost importance to strategists because its antithesis in limited wars effectively precludes the proper function of strategy and thereby undermines the utility of war.”
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