New coverage of the law applicable to cyber, air and space operations.

Textual content that focuses on the operational level giving any student, regardless of background or experience, a contextual understanding of the law.

A reorganized chapter structure that more effectively streamlines the presentation of each chapter and better synchronizes the entire text.

Updated substantive content that incorporates important sources such as the 2016 Department of Defense Law of War Manual, the revised Commentary to the First and Second Geneva Conventions, and official legal positions related to U.S.

and major Coalition partners, as well as the perspectives drawn from the academic and non-governmental humanitarian communities, in order to expose students to the challenges these divergences can create for decision-makers and their legal advisors. interpretation of this area of law, but also includes discussion of important areas of legal divergence between U.S. and Coalition attack on Iraq, the scenario links all chapters together, and places students in the role of military and civilian legal advisors responsible for providing commanders and other operational decision-makers with legally-based opinions to support their missions. To accomplish the authors’ objective, the book uses an operational scenario to provide the context necessary to develop a genuine understanding of the law.īased on Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 2003 U.S. Army officer (more than 140 years of collective military operational experience) and a leading scholar in the field of international law and conflict regulation.

The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Approachcovers all aspects of the law of armed conflict and explains the important difference between law and policy in regulation of military operations.

Law of armed conflict manual