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The US Department of Defense Law of War Manual: An Update

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2011

Stephanie Carvin
Stephanie Carvin
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK e-mail: [email protected]
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One of the major legal instruments the US Department of Defense (DoD) will be relying on in terms of planning and carrying out its activities in the near future is a new law of war military manual which is expected to be published sometime in 2011. While on the surface such a document may not seem of critical interest to those interested in security/strategic studies or to humanitarian activists seeking to ban rather than regulate violence, there are important reasons to place a certain amount of emphasis on this DoD product and to expect that it will have a significant impact, especially on issues that are presently widely debated within the humanitarian legal community.

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Current Developments
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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law , Volume 13 , December 2010 , pp. 353 - 363
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Authors 2010

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