I have read some Ripstein, but mostly excerpts because others were engaging with his work.
I don't have much to add to what you write, but one thing I really found fascinating about Kant's treatment of conduct in war is that it signals how one understands the post-war situation. And that this both informs and constitutes how we should think about what it means to fight a war 'rightly.' I am not sure there is a 'measure' of that (and genuinely averse to box-ticking), but I understand, I think, what you are saying.
I have read some Ripstein, but mostly excerpts because others were engaging with his work.
I don't have much to add to what you write, but one thing I really found fascinating about Kant's treatment of conduct in war is that it signals how one understands the post-war situation. And that this both informs and constitutes how we should think about what it means to fight a war 'rightly.' I am not sure there is a 'measure' of that (and genuinely averse to box-ticking), but I understand, I think, what you are saying.
thank you.