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What have we learnt about war?

As we write this editorial (in early March 2013), the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq is only a few days away. Thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives in the intervening decade, including 35 killed in February this year, as well as almost 5000 coalition troops, the vast majority from the US and the UK. Writing just after the 2003 invasion, Douglas Holdstock, then editor of Medicine, Conflict and Survival, discussed the idea that the human rights abuses committed by Saddam Hussein’s government justified intervention. He said that: