Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to examine what we are willing to make sacrifices for, and the lengths we are willing to go to in making them. It is a collection of observations about an ancient feature of armed conflict, what characterises it today, and against what context these measures should be measured. Using the ‘siege’, I look at the use of non-lethal and information-based measures, apply elements of just war thinking to the use of information-based and non-lethal measures, and challenge the principle of war as a last resort. Ultimately this chapter is a discussion of the ‘what is worse’ comparisons that have become very familiar in just war thinking, and could be challenged by a different moral approach.
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