This book introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. Gary D. Solis, who has more than twenty years of experience teaching these subjects, leads readers from the basics of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to the finer points of battlefield law.
This book introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. Gary D. Solis, who has more than twenty years of experience teaching these subjects, leads readers from the basics of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to the finer points of battlefield law.
Gary D. Solis is a retired professor of law of the United States Military Academy, where he taught the law of armed conflict and directed West Point's law of war program for six years. He was a 2007 Library of Congress scholar in residence. He is a retired US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, having twice served in Vietnam, where he was a company commander. He holds law degrees from the University of California, Davis and George Washington University, Washington DC. He has a doctorate in the law of war from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a member of the American Law Institute and teaches the law of war at Georgetown University Law Center. His books include Marines and Military Law in Vietnam (1989) and Son Thang: An American War Crime (1997).
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Foreword Preface and acknowledgments Table of cases Table of treaties 1. Rules of war, laws of war 2. Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations 3. Two world wars and their law of armed conflict results 4. Protocols and politics 5. Conflict status 6. Individual battlefield status 7. Law of armed conflict's core principles 8. What is a 'war crime'? 9. Obedience to orders, the first defense 10. Command responsibility 11. Ruses and perfidy 12. Rules of engagement 13. Targeting objects 14. Targeting combatants and others 15. A.I., Autonomous weapons, drones, and targeted killing 16. Torture 17. Cyber in the law of armed conflict 18. Attacks on cultural property 19. The 1980 certain conventional weapons convention 20. Gas, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons 21. Military commissions 22. Security detention and internment.
Foreword Preface and acknowledgments Table of cases Table of treaties 1. Rules of war, laws of war 2. Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations 3. Two world wars and their law of armed conflict results 4. Protocols and politics 5. Conflict status 6. Individual battlefield status 7. Law of armed conflict's core principles 8. What is a 'war crime'? 9. Obedience to orders, the first defense 10. Command responsibility 11. Ruses and perfidy 12. Rules of engagement 13. Targeting objects 14. Targeting combatants and others 15. A.I., Autonomous weapons, drones, and targeted killing 16. Torture 17. Cyber in the law of armed conflict 18. Attacks on cultural property 19. The 1980 certain conventional weapons convention 20. Gas, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons 21. Military commissions 22. Security detention and internment.
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