In my second article that is titled “When is war justified”, it argues in what situations should, or military force be justified whether it is due to a certain enrich mineral or resource that can create a warhead that a certain country has or a country developing or launching a nuclear warhead inside of a nuclear missile. Or even sending troops into another country that a government has lost its power or authority to s terrorist group. “No decision is more fateful of a government to employ military force (Haass, 2009). even when the cases are clear as day it still is a difficult decision to make since politics will always been involved and not everyone will agree to the decision. In the 13h century St. Thomas Aquinas had three conditions or rules to make even war justifiable. The first condition is it has to be ordered by the government, the cause has to be justifiable or reasonable and the combatants must a right intention, so they intend the battle between good and evil (Haass, 2009). War should also be the last resort as there are more peaceful and easier solutions to solve a conflict without any type violence or any death to solve it. When it becomes justifiable it undoubtedly has to be necessary in which where the most vital interest of a country that are threatened and are no alternate options than using military force. Military force will do more good for the country and more people …show more content…
The force of ratio is often requested at 20 soldiers for every 1,000 citizens, which works out to be 650,000 troops for Iraq and even 600,000 for Afghanistan (Ringham, 2013). The force will either be too small to pacify or gain any territory or either too big or clumsy to win over the people in that territory. One of the biggest threats to the military force is not some terrorist organization but the budget cuts. In the next decade, the budget will come from the pentagon budget to be around one trillion dollars. The budget could include cuts in troops to a lesser amount probably around 100,000 which is usually at almost approximately 500,000. The cuts will also go after the flight bombers and other essential transportation (Ringham,