“Cavalier at best, Criminal at worst”: A Brief History of the Humanization of War.

Humans have always fought wars. This is why war and battles belong to history. Only within history is it possible to know, recognize, frame, analyze, and understand them. But humans also wage war. The attempt to limit it, to impose rules and a form of legitimacy upon it, and ultimately to humanize it, has traveled alongside and often dominated human adventure since its inception.