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Assessing Claims to Revise the Laws of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

W. Michael Reisman
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 82 - 90
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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14 By characterizing as essentially “law enforcement” questions the prior attacks on the Khobar Towers, the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, and the USS Cole in Aden harbor, one might argue, as some have, that the United States was not at war as of 8 A.M. on September 11, 2001. Only a most technical and arid legalism could deny that it is now.

15 See HOUSE OF COMMONS, FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE—FOURTH REPORT, KOSOVO (May 23, 2000), available at <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmfafF/28/2802.htm>; Independent International Commission on Kosovo, The Kosovo Report (Oct. 2000) (on file with author).

16 They will find considerable assistance in this task in Mcdougal, Myres S. & Feliciano, Florentino P., Law and Minimum World Public Order 63 (1961)Google Scholar.

* The source for the epigraph to this Editorial is Wendell Holmes, Oliver, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 469 (1897)Google Scholar. James E. Baker and Andrew Willard read earlier drafts and made useful comments and criticisms.