Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers have made counterinsurgency\u27s principles and paradoxes second nature, and they now expect that counterinsurgency operations will be the likely wars of the future. Yet despite counterinsurgency\u27s ubiquity in military and policy circles, legal scholars have almost completely ignored it. This Article evaluates the laws of war in light of modern counterinsurgency strategy. It shows that the laws of war are premised on a kill-capture strategic foundation that does not apply in counterinsurgency, which follows a win-the-population strategy. The result is that the laws of war are disconnected from military realities in multiple areas - from t...
Since 2001, we have witnessed the development of a counterterrorism war paradigm built to advance cl...
Success in counterinsurgency campaigns requires the U.S. military to train, equip, and ultimately tu...
This dissertation addresses the rarely examined issue of disqualification of weapons from the battle...
Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers...
The struggle to define the contours of the legal regime and to correctly communicate those expectati...
The laws of armed conflict (LOAC), in an inadvertent but macabre paradox, are serving as weapons of ...
The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts ...
In the tumultuous opening decade of the twenty-first century, the debate over which legal regime sho...
In this Research Paper, Dr. Christophe Paulussen explores whether the current international legal fr...
In this well-timed revision to the first edition published in 2009, the authors allow th...
Although the conflict formerly known as the “war on terror” is now in its eighth year, key legal iss...
The various international treaties governing armed conflicts – the main Hague Conventions from 1907,...
The old truism, that international law is not a suicide pact, is forceful in an age of destructive w...
In this article, I develop three theses. First, I claim that disagreements about the legality of cou...
This article examines how humanitarian laws of war have been recast in light of a new generation of ...
Since 2001, we have witnessed the development of a counterterrorism war paradigm built to advance cl...
Success in counterinsurgency campaigns requires the U.S. military to train, equip, and ultimately tu...
This dissertation addresses the rarely examined issue of disqualification of weapons from the battle...
Since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military strategists, historians, soldiers, and policymakers...
The struggle to define the contours of the legal regime and to correctly communicate those expectati...
The laws of armed conflict (LOAC), in an inadvertent but macabre paradox, are serving as weapons of ...
The law of armed conflict has often been described as outdated and ill suited to military conflicts ...
In the tumultuous opening decade of the twenty-first century, the debate over which legal regime sho...
In this Research Paper, Dr. Christophe Paulussen explores whether the current international legal fr...
In this well-timed revision to the first edition published in 2009, the authors allow th...
Although the conflict formerly known as the “war on terror” is now in its eighth year, key legal iss...
The various international treaties governing armed conflicts – the main Hague Conventions from 1907,...
The old truism, that international law is not a suicide pact, is forceful in an age of destructive w...
In this article, I develop three theses. First, I claim that disagreements about the legality of cou...
This article examines how humanitarian laws of war have been recast in light of a new generation of ...
Since 2001, we have witnessed the development of a counterterrorism war paradigm built to advance cl...
Success in counterinsurgency campaigns requires the U.S. military to train, equip, and ultimately tu...
This dissertation addresses the rarely examined issue of disqualification of weapons from the battle...