Title: Legitimate Targets?
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"--
Subjects: Air warfare, War (international law), United states, air force, Air warfare (International law), Humanitarian law, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, United States. Air Force, United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE, International Relations, General