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• Title:Law on the battlefield / A.P.V. Rogers.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rogers, A. P. V.
  
• Published/Created:Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, ©2012.
  

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  • Call Number: KZ6471 .R64 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:War (International law)
  Military law.
  
• Edition:3rd ed.
  
• Description:xxv, 402 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Melland Schill studies in international law.
  
• Notes:Previous ed.: 2004.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780719082184 (paperback)
  0719082188 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. General principles
  Armed conflict
  Military necessity
  Humanity
  Rule of distinction
  Civilians and combatants
  Taking a direct part in hostilities
  Civilian property and military targets
  Civilians and civilian objects protected
  Rule of proportionality
  Indiscriminate attacks
  Customary law
  Treaty law
  Definition of attack
  2. Enemy armed forces
  I. Good faith
  Who is a member of the enemy armed forces?
  Child fighters
  Perfidy and ruses of war
  Perfidy
  Ruses of war
  Difference between perfidy and ruses of war
  Tactics: ambush, sniping, sabotage
  Uniform
  Use of enemy uniform
  Misuse of emblems
  Intelligence-gathering
  Assassination and `targeted killing'
  Outlawry
  Psychological warfare
  II. Humanity
  Attacking food and water used by members of the enemy armed forces
  Surrender
  Safeguard of persons hors de combat
  Occupants of aircraft and vehicles
  Quarter
  Unusual conditions of combat
  Wounded, sick and dead
  Prisoners of war
  Humane treatment
  Maintenance and medical treatment
  Searching
  Security
  Interrogation
  Evacuation
  3. Wounded, sick and shipwrecked
  Geneva emblem
  Objects of protection
  wounded, sick, shipwrecked, dead and missing
  Medical units
  Medical personnel
  Protection
  Identification
  Retained personnel
  Use of arms
  Duties
  Medical installations and equipment
  Medical transports
  General protection
  Medical aircraft
  Medical ships and craft
  Neutrality law and the wounded and sick
  Religious personnel
  Hospital and safety zones
  4. Military objectives
  Current law
  Gulf war 1991
  Kosovo 1999
  reappraisal of the definition of military objectives?
  Afghanistan 2001
  Iraq 2003
  Television stations as targets
  Conclusions
  Examples of military objectives
  Objects protected from attack
  5. Precautions in attack
  Hague Regulations
  Destruction or damage
  Non-combatants
  Warnings
  Assault
  Bombardment
  Necessary steps
  Precautions
  Air Warfare Rules
  Greco-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal
  Second World War practice
  Air warfare
  Monte Cassino
  Events from 1945 to 1977
  Current law
  Precautio ns in attack
  `Attack' and `feasible'
  Precautions
  `Concrete and direct'
  Warning
  `Unless circumstances do not permit'
  Sieges
  Gulf war 1991
  Allied bombing campaign
  Kosovo 1999
  Air-war targeting
  Afghanistan 2001
  Iraq 2003
  Legal responsibilities in practice
  General principles
  Levels of responsibility
  Conclusions
  Guidelines: offensive operations checklist
  Practicalities
  6. Precautions against the effects of attacks
  Current law
  Precautions against the effects of attacks
  Remove civiliam and civilian objects
  Avoid densely populated areas
  Protect civilians
  Feasible
  Own territory
  Using civilians to shield military objects or operations
  Failure of defenders; position of attackers
  Civil defence
  Zones
  Other protected objects
  Open or undefended towns
  7. Cultural property
  Protected property
  Hague Regulations
  Air Warfare Rules
  Roerich Pact
  Draft convention of 1939
  Second World War practice
  Cultural property
  Cultural Property Convention
  Scope of application
  Definition
  Basic protection
  Special protection
  Enhanced protection
  Waiver of protection
  Precautions in attack
  Precautions in defence
  Occupation
  Transports
  Personnel
  Protective emblem
  Supervision
  Enforcement
  Measures for compliance
  Sending and receiving states
  Discussion
  Cultural property and places of worship
  Protocol I
  Discussion
  ICC statute
  Dubrovnik
  Iraq
  definition of cultural property
  Conclusions
  8. Environmental protection
  Current law
  Property protection
  Environmental protection
  ENMOD Convention
  Protocol I
  Relationship between the ENMOD Convention and Protocol I
  Other provisions of Protocol I
  Particular weapons
  Conventional weapons
  Mines and other remnants of war
  Nuclear weapons
  Incendiary weapons
  Chemical and biological weapons
  Fuel-air explosive
  Depleted uranium
  Effect on neutral states
  Iraq
  Oil pollution
  Nuclear and chemical facilities
  Diverting rivers
  Depleted uranium
  Evaluation
  Conclusions
  future
  9. Belligerent occupation
  I. Authority over occupied territory
  Transition from war fighting to occupation
  Commencement of occupation
  Temporary nature of occupation
  Legal position of parties
  Human rights law
  Duties and rights of the occupying power
  Duties and rights of the population
  Termination of occupation
  Postscript on Iraq
  II. Security issues
  Withdrawal of right of communication
  Powers relating to property
  Use or requisitioning of private property?
  Destruction of property
  Compulsory labour
  Rationing
  Blockade
  Evacuation
  Deportations and transfers
  Settlements
  Reprisals
  Hostage taking
  Policing, riot control and resistance
  Short-term detention and interrogation
  Trial and punishment
  Assigned residence and internment
  Conditions of internment
  Security barriers
  10. conduct of hostilities in internal armed conflicts
  Law applicable
  Existence of an internal armed conflict
  Types of internal armed conflict
  conduct of hostilities in internal armed conflicts
  Enemy armed forces
  Wounded, sick, shipwrecked and dead
  Civilian immunity
  Forced movement of civilians
  Military objectives and civilian objects
  Precautions in attack
  Precautions against the effects of attacks
  Cultural property
  Environmental protection
  Criminal responsibility
  Belligerent reprisals
  Internal armed conflicts, a summary of the rules
  11. Command responsibility
  war crimes trials
  Exception for detail
  Assumption of legality of orders not obviously unlawful
  Duty to prevent crimes
  Duty to take steps
  Knowledge
  Ignorance of reports
  Cases where commander put on notice
  Proof of knowledge, summary
  Offences by persons not under command
  Duty/liability
  Evidence
  Staff officers
  Protocol I
  commander's responsibility for war crimes committed by his subordinates (Protocol I, Art, 86, para. 2)
  Duty of commanders to deal with breaches (Protocol I, Art. 87, para. 3)
  Recent developments
  ICTY Statute
  ICC Statute
  Conclusions
  Military discipline and superior orders
  12. Implementation and enforcement of the law of war
  I. Implementation
  Practice
  Command influence
  Reciprocity
  Hostage taking prohibited
  Nuremberg principles
  Legal mechanisms
  Belligerent reprisals
  Training and dissemination
  International assistance
  International co-operation
  Fact-finding and inquiries
  International Committee of the Red Cross
  Compensation
  II. Enforcement
  War crimes and grave breaches
  War crimes
  Grave breaches
  War crimes and internal armed conflict
  Criminal responsibility
  Individual criminal responsibility
  Responsibility of commanders
  Responsibility of states
  Mental element of war crimes
  Defences to war crimes charges
  Accident
  Duress
  Ignorance of law
  Mistake of fact
  Superior orders
  International Criminal Court
  III. contribution of the military lawyer
  Negotiator
  Manual writer
  Instructor
  Legal adviser
  Some legal aspects of peace support operations
  Prosecutor
  Final remarks.