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Humanitarianism and the Laws of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Anthony E. Hartle
Affiliation:
United States Military Academy, West Point

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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References

1 So called in recognition of the Russian jurist, Martens, F. F., President of the 1899 Hague Conventions (see Sidney Bailey, Prohibitions and Restraints in War (Oxford, 1972).Google Scholar

2 Leon, Friedman (ed.), The Law of War: A Documentary History (New York: Random House, 1972), Vol. 1. 309.Google Scholar

3 Department of the Air Force, International Law–The Conduct of Armed Conflict and Air Operations, AF Pamphlet 110-31 (Washington, DC, 19 November 1976), 1-6.

4 AFP 110-31, p. 1-

5 AFP 110-31, p. 11-4.

6 Morris, Greenspan, The Modern Law of Land Warfare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959), 22.Google Scholar

7 This point is presented clearly in the Preamble to Hague Convention No. IV (1907).

8 Brandt, Richard B., ‘Utilitarianism and the Rules of War’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (Winter 1972), 145165.Google Scholar