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Military professionalism and humanitarian law : the struggle to reduce the hazards of war / Yishai Beer

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Beer, Yishai, 1956-
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Revitalizing the Concept of Military Necessity -- Introduction -- 1.1.Military Professionalism: Constraining Brute Force Enhances Military Effectiveness -- 1.2.The Prevailing Necessity Principle: A Hollow Rule and Its Effects -- 1.3.The Effects of Transforming Professional Military Standards into Legal Norms -- 1.3.1."If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It": Why Transform Self-imposed and Voluntarily Respected Professional Standards into Legal Norms? -- 1.3.2.The Institutional and Substantive Challenges -- 1.3.3.The Suggested Effect upon Combatants: Soldiers' Lives Should Matter -- 1.3.4.The Suggested Effect upon Noncombatants: Reducing the Lawful Collateral Damage -- 1.3.5.Imposing Political Leaders' in hello Responsibility -- 1.3.6.Constraining Brutal Militaries and Vicious Soldiers -- 1.4.Why Now? Has the Time Come for Revised Military Necessity? -- 1.5.Concluding Remarks -- 2.Lawful War of Self-Defense: When Not to Be a Sitting Duck -- Introduction -- 2.1.Self-Defense: The Prevailing Law -- 2.2.The Practice of States and Its Justification -- Introduction -- 2.2.1.The Six Day War -- 2.2.2.Prevention in the Guise of an Anticipatory Strike: The American Lessons -- 2.3.Lawful Self-Defense against an "Occurring" Armed Attack: A Suggested Operational Standard -- 2.3.1.Normative Introduction: A Self-Defendant Is Not Doomed to Be a Sitting Duck -- 2.3.2.Military Professionalism: Learning Its Objectives and Subjective Variants -- 2.3.3.Operational Last Resort: A Professional Standard -- 2.3.4.Military Necessity of the Self-Defendant in Case of an Imminent Threat: The Special Attributes of the Operational Last Resort -- 2.3.5.The Operational Last-Resort Standard Is Consistent with the UN Charter -- 2.4.Challenges to the Operational Last Resort Standard: A Normative Balance -- 2.5.Concluding Remarks -- 3.Military Strategy: The Blind Spot of International Humanitarian Law -- Introduction---Thinking Strategically to Reduce War's Hazards -- 3.1.Strategy Determines War's Patterns and Scope -- 3.2.The Strategic Change: The Rise and Decline of Total War -- 3.2.1.A Pendulum Movement: The Evolution of "Total War" -- 3.2.2.Napoleon's Practice and Clausewitz's Theory Do Not Hold a Monopoly on Military Thinking and Practice -- 3.2.3.The Effectiveness of the Total Destruction of an Adversary's Military: The American Lesson -- 3.2.4.Internalization of the Limitations of Force by Law-Abiding States -- 3.3.Turning a Blind Eye to Military War Aims: The Silence of the Law Promotes the Roar of the Cannons -- 3.4.Tactical "Military Advantage" or Strategic? -- 3.4.1.The Two Dichotomist Schools -- 3.4.2.The Prevailing Schools' Mistakes and the Suggested Hybrid Approach -- 3.4.3.Adapting Lawful Targets to Limited Wars: The Shrinking of the Potential Targets Bank -- 3.4.4.Reasoned Declaration of War: Revisiting an Old Neglected Practice -- 3.5.The Required Nexus---Connecting Targeting to Strategy -- 3.5.1.The Prevailing Nexus: "Effective Contribution to Military Action" -- 3.5.2.The Vertical Nexus -- 3.5.3.Losing Strategic Ambiguity: Costs and Benefits -- 3.6.Concluding Remarks -- 4.Defensive Deterrence: Legalizing the Stepchild of International Law -- 4.1.Deterrence: An Essential---yet Problematic---Strategy -- 4.2.The Rejection of Reciprocal Deterrence Considerations by the Prevailing Law -- 4.3.The Potential Benefits of Introducing Defensive Deterrence Considerations into Lawful Self-Defense -- 4.3.1.Deterrence---An Efficient Tool to Enforce Compliance with the Law -- 4.3.2.Introducing Defensive Deterrence Considerations into the ad Bellum Proportionality: Challenging Its Quantitative Basis -- 4.4.Tailoring an Appropriate Defensive Deterrent Suit -- 4.4.1.Proportional Deterrence---Limited to the Specific Conflict -- 4.4.2.Deterrence-Oriented Proportionality in a Changing Reality---A Self-Adjustment Challenge -- 4.5.Defensive Deterrence: A Tool for Evaluating the Legality of a War's Aims -- Introduction: Revitalizing the ad Bellum Proportionality -- 4.5.1."Halt and Repel"---the Minimal In-Scale Response -- 4.5.2.Deterring a Repeat Aggressor -- 4.5.3.When Deterrence Fails: Incapacitation or Regime Change -- 4.6.Defensive Deterrence: Advantages and Disadvantages---An Interim Balance -- 4.7.Concluding Remarks -- 5.Conclusions.
Summary
This work challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality. The text offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based, attainable requirements.
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ISBN
9780190881177 (ebook)
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Specialized.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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