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    The law of armed conflict : international humanitarian law in war / Gary D. Solis.

    • Title:The law of armed conflict : international humanitarian law in war / Gary D. Solis.
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    • Author/Creator:Solis, Gary D.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:War (International law)
      Humanitarian law.
    • Description:xxi, 659 p. ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780521870887 (hardback)
    • Contents:1. Rules of war, laws of war
      2. Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations
      3. Two World Wars and their law of armed conflict results
      4. Protocols and politics
      5. Conflict status
      6. Individual battlefield status
      7. Law of armed conflict's four core principles
      8. What is a "war crime"?
      9. Obedience to orders, the first defense
      10. Command responsibility and Respondeat superior
      11. Ruses and perfidy
      12. Torture
      13. Rules of engagement
      14. Targeting
      15. Attacks on cultural property
      16. 1980 Certain Conventional Weapons Convention
      17. Gas, biological, and chemical weapons treaties.
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