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War and War Crimes - The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict (Paperback)
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War and War Crimes - The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict (Paperback)
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The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity
and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern
warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an
increasing emphasis on legality is the norm? Where do such
boundaries lie in the contexts, means and methods of contemporary
war? What is wrong, or right, in the view of military-political
practitioners, in how those concepts relate to today's means and
methods of war? These are among the issues addressed by James Gow
in his compelling analysis of war and war crimes, which draws upon
research conducted over many years with defence professionals from
all over the world. Today more than ever, military strategy has to
embrace justice and law, with both being deemed essential
prerequisites for achieving success on the battlefield. And in a
context where legitimacy defines success in warfare, but is a
fragile and contested concept, no group has a greater interest in
responding to these pressures and changes positively than the
military. It is they who have the greatest need and desire to
foster legitimacy in war by getting the politics-law-strategy nexus
right, as well as developing a clear understanding of the
relationship between war and war crimes, and calibrating where war
becomes a war crime.
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