The attributes of current conflicts are much less novel than assumed. It aims to enrich the discourse with the following five provocative thoughts: First, it refutes the received historical account that the current crisis results from the rise of a new kind of war.
This chapter addresses that classification crisis. Under what conditions International Human Rights Law (IHRL) applies in wartime? Who is a combatant, and who is a non-combatant, given that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) sets very different rules for each? When do armed conflicts begin and end, and what are their spatial boundaries, given that IHL only applies to armed conflict? What conditions distinguish international from non-international armed conflict ("IAC" from "NIAC"), given that distinct IHL corpus governs each? What law applies to cross-border fights between non-State and State forces ("transnational wars"): peacetime international law, IAC-law, NIAC-law, or a new IHL altogether? Since the early-2000s, such war-related legal classifications have been evermore, un-resolvability debated. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.
This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed confl ict. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz's original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the fi eld. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffi ces to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities.
Clausewitz's original analysis of war relegated ethics to the sidelines in favour of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy.
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