War and War Crimes: The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict

by James Gow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327025
• ISBN13: 9780199327027
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"