Legitimate Targets?

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"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--

subjects: Air warfare,  War (international law),  United states, air force,  Air warfare (International law),  Humanitarian law,  History,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General,  United States. Air Force,  United States,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  International Relations,  General