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According to a well-established rule of the law of armed conflict, warring parties are prohibited from employing weapons, means, and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering. Agreement about the foundational nature of this rule can, however, easily conceal the disagreement as to its precise meaning and efficacy. This paper considers the origins of the rule in question, and how key aspects of the rule are interpreted. It then examines one of the more contentious issues about the rule, namely whether it is only concerned with the inherent properties of particular weapons or whether it also deals with the use of weapons generally.

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Chapter 11 looks at how new technologies and methods of warfare relate to and impact on the law relating to the use of force. They include cyber warfare, hybrid warfare, drones, autonomous weapons and hypersonic weapons.

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9 - Protecting Warfighters from Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering

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11 - New Technologies of Warfare and the Law on the Use of Force

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