In his 'War and Innocence' Fullwinder starts with an interesting goal in itself. He wants to patch up the holes in other's works on innocence theory relating to the killing of combatants and non-combatants. So in order to patch up this hole he invents the theory of self-defense.
Not to mention the possible flaws in the theory itself it seems to me a rahter round about way of approaching morality. He does not ever aproach why any action is moral or imoral, he is concerned with his theory bridging a gap in a theory that is by-and-large assumed to be correct. I would have liked it if Fullwinder tried to figure out why killing non-combatants is immoral in itself.
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