Was the Falklands War considered a just war?

The Just War doctrine exits both to justify and ensure that war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered a Just War. Just War theory postulates that war, while terrible, is not always the worst option. read more

I chose the Falklands War of 1982 because it is relatively "neat" for our purposes, and it isn't horribly depressing, at least I hope it isn't! On the search for a war that could be just on both sides, I came across the description of the Falkland Wars in Richard Regan’s book, Just War: Principles and Cases. read more

The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. read more