Legitimate Targets?
Subtitle: Social Construction, International Law and US Bombing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781107694866
Subjects: Air warfare; War (international law); United states, air force
Description: "Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--