Wars require moral justification for leaders, publics, and soldiers alike

Evidence

Given the death and destruction wrought by war, policy makers and their advisors have to find moral justification for a war for their own well-being, to enlist public support for it, and to enable soldiers to do the fighting. Military actions, whether successful or not, usually are launched with a tenacious belief in the rightness of the cause. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2323

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2323
• XREF: connects to: Bush used women’s rights and democracy to justify war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 455; Warmaking elites sell wars by claiming weapons are precise and humane — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1121; Images of distant suffering provoke moral engagement and military intervention. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 15