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Acknowledgments In the course of planning and writing this book, I received much support and encouragement from many people. My late father, Frank Murphy, educated me long ago on the primacy of the political, and the importance of civilian control of the military. He first got me thinking about these things, so it is fitting that he be acknowledged first. I am deeply grateful to Pat Riordan, fellow-Jesuit, friend, and colleague at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland, for many years. He read the entire draft carefully, and his critical comments made this a much better work than it would otherwise have been. His work on the common good has also been influential in the conception of this book. My thanks go also to the anonymous reviewers for Georgetown University Press, whose helpful comments were enlightening. The intellectual stimulus of conversations with Bob Araujo, Tom Carson, Rudi Casals, Chris Curran, George Dempsey, and Vera Price was particularly valuable. The Jesuits of Ireland and the Jesuits of Chicago supported the project financially, and my colleagues in the philosophy departments of the Milltown Institute and Loyola University Chicago provided stimulating contexts for doing serious philosophical writing. There are many others—friends, philosopher-colleagues, and Jesuits—whose personal and professional support must be acknowledged. Among these I thank Peter Bernardi, Bob Bireley, Blake Dutton, Máire Garvey, David Ingram, John Langan, Tom Layden, Micheál McGréil, Paul Moser, Marie Murphy, Donal Neary, Des O’Grady, Brian Paulson, Tom Phelan, Saythala “Lay” Phonexayphova, Vera Price, David Quinn, Tom Regan, James Smyth, Vincent Twomey SVD, Gvidas Vainorius (who sadly did not live to see this book in print), Mark Waymack, Vicki Wike, and David Yandell. This page intentionally left blank ...

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