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[ Killing in War . By Jeff McMahan. Oxford University Press, 2009. Xii + 250 pages.] Jeff McMahan has written a genuinely revolutionary book. He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory. The standard view sharply separates the morality of going to war, jus ad bellum , from the morality of warfare, jus in bello . Whether or not a war is