Love of enemies is oddly absent from Augustine’s treatment of war

Evidence

And yet, given the importance of love, of Christian love, in Augustine, given the status of The City of God as a founding text of Western political theory, as well as a founding text of the theory of “just war,” and finally, given the prominent place Augustine himself makes for various enemies in the book, it is imperative to consider the significance of the absence of the enemy (inimicus) from his reflections on love and war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 161

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why does the foundational text of just-war theory omit the enemy from its reflections on love? This is the puzzle the chapter sets out to solve.