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The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective 2nd Edition

The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective 2nd Edition

Author: Geoffrey S. Corn; James A. Schoettler Jr.; Dru Brenner-Beck; Victor M. Hansen; Dick Jackson; Eric Talbot Jensen; Michael W. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199941452

Published In: January 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780190221416

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Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups. Understanding how the law of armed conflict applies to and regulates military operations executed within the scope of this armed conflict against transnational non-state terrorist groups is as important today as it was in September 2001.

In The War on Terror and the Laws of War seven legal scholars, each with experience as military officers, focus on how to strike an effective balance between the necessity of using armed violence to subdue a threat to the nation with the humanitarian interest of mitigating the suffering inevitably associated with that use. Each chapter addresses a specific operational issue, including the national right of self-defense, military targeting and the use of drones, detention, interrogation, trial by military commission of captured terrorist operatives, and the impact of battlefield perspectives on counter-terror military operations, while illustrating how the law of armed conflict influences resolution of that issue.

This Second Edition carries on the critical mission of continuing the ongoing dialogue about the law from an unabashedly military perspective, bringing practical wisdom to the contentious topic of applying international law to the battlefield.

Author Biographies

Acknowledgments

List of Treaties and Sources Frequently Cited in this Book

Foreword to the Second Edition, by Major General (Retired) Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Foreword to the First Edition, by Major General (Retired) Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

Introduction, by Geoffrey S. Corn

Chapter 1

Legal Basis for the Use of Armed Conflict / by Geoffrey S. Corn

Chapter 2

Triggering the Law of Armed Conflict? / by Geoffrey S. Corn

Chapter 3

Targeting of Persons and Property / by Eric Talbot Jensen