LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT
OTS  Topics

a.  Laws of armed conflict are necessary to follow, even when the enemy does not.
b.  It's important to treat prisoners of war with due process and in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
c.  Napalm is a necessary weapon for the military.
d.  Nuclear weapons are an important weapon for the military.
e.  Biological weapons are prohibited from military use for good reason.

December 2010

Compiled by Bibliography Branch
Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL

Contents

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All sites listed were last accessed on December 20, 2010.

Internet Resources

Air War College Gateway to the Internet.  Abu Ghraib Prison Incident.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College.
Available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-law.htm#abu_ghraib
Air War College gateway to information. Links to military and legal sites are listed.

Air War College Gateway to the Internet.  Laws of War and Laws in War.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College.
Available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-law.htm#low
Air War College gateway to information.  Links to military and legal sites are listed.

Air War College Gateway to the Internet.  Torture.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College.
Available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-law.htm#torture
Air War College gateway to information.  Links to military and legal sites are listed.

Air War College Gateway to the Internet.  Treatment of POWs and Detainees, Including Interrogation.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College.
Available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-law.htm#treatment
Air War College gateway to information.  Links to military and legal sites are listed.

Blank, Laurie R. and Guiora, Amos N.  Updating the Commander's Toolbox:  New Tools for Operationalizing the Law of Armed Conflict.  Washington, National Defense University, Center for Complex Operations, 2010.  20 p.
Available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA521812

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction.  Bureau of Public Affairs.  U.S. Dept of State, 1972.
Available online at:  http://disarmament.un.org/treatystatus.nsf/44e6eeabc9436b78852568770078d9c0/ffa7842e7fd1d0078525688f0070b82d?OpenDocument
Signed at Washington, London, and Moscow April 10, 1972.  Entered into force March 26, 1975.

Law of Armed Conflict in Air and Space Operations.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center, 2009.
Available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/loac09.htm
A bibliography compiled at Fairchild Center to support student research.

Wallach, Judge Evan.  Law of War Homepage--Interactive Outline of the Law of War. 2004.
Available online at:  http://lawofwar.org/outline.htm
This site is intended for use by students, military lawyers, government officials, academics, and anyone else interested in an international legal regime for the regulation of the use of armed force.
See section 3:  Means and Conduct of Hostilities; Nuclear Weapons; Gas and Biological Weapons; Conventional Weapons.
See section 5:  Protected Persons; Prisoners of War; Interrogation of Prisoners.

Books

Military Commander and the Law.  9th ed.  Maxwell AFB, AL, United States. Air Force.  Judge Advocate General School, 2008.  655 p.
See chapter 17, International & Operations Law.
Also available online at:  http://milcom.jag.af.mil/milcom2008.pdf
Book call no.:  343.013 M644 2008

National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, by the National Security Council.  Washington, 2009.  23 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA511439
Book call no.:  358.380973 N277
 

Documents

Library of Congress.  Congressional Research Service.  Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty:  Background and Current Developments, by Jonathan Medalia.  Washington, 2008.  1 vol.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA481390
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42953-1 no.02-RL33548

Library of Congress.  Congressional Research Service.  The Military Commissions Act of 2009:  Overview and Legal Issues, by Jennifer K. Elsea.  Washington, April 2010.  52 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA517846
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42953-1 no.R41163

Library of Congress.  Congressional Research Service, by Jennifer K. Elsea.  Treatment of "Battlefield Detainees" in the War on Terrorism.  Washington, November 2003.  56 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA458504
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42953-1 no. 02-RL31367


Documents (Student Research)

Chiarenza, David C.  Moral Warfare in Counterinsurgency Operations.  Fort Leavenworth, KS, School of Advanced Military Studies, Army Command and General Staff College, May 2007.  43 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA470669
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42022-2 C532m

De Alicante, Tony F.   How Now Shall We Fight?  The Relevance of the Law of Armed Conflict to the United States and Its Coalition Members in Light of the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September 2000.  Newport, RI, U.S. Naval War College, 2002.  23 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA400948
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41662 D279h

Pitts, Teresa M.  Cultural, Religious, and Ideological Perspectives on the Just War Doctrine and the Customary Laws of Armed Conflict:  Western (Catholic) and Islam (Shiite).  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College, February 2007.  26 p.
Also available online at:  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/pitts_just_war.pdf
Doc. call no.:  M-U 43117 P688c

Rawson, Holly B.  Mercenaries, Terrorists and Corporations (Oh My!):  The Yellow Brick Road to Dealing with Non-State Actors in Combat.   Newport, RI, Naval War College, February 2003.  23 p.
Cover Title:  Does the Law of Armed Conflict Need to Evolve with Respect to Non-State Actors?
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA415488
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41662 R262d

Reid, Scott.  Terrorists as Enemy Combatants:  An Analysis of How the United States Applies the Law of Armed Conflict in the Global War on Terrorism.  Newport, RI, Naval War College, February 2004.  26 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA422754
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41662 R358t

Periodicals

Baker, James E.  When Lawyers Advise Presidents in Wartime:  Kosovo and the Law of Armed Conflict.  Naval War College Review 55:11-24 Winter 2002.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=6702138&site=ehost-live

DeSaussure, Ariane L.  Role of the Law of Armed Conflict During the Persian Gulf War:  An Overview.  Air Force Law Review 37:41-68 1994.
Also available online at:  http://www.afjag.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090108-035.pdf (Scroll down to access article)

Kellogg, Davida E.  International Law and Terrorism.  Military Review 85:50-57 September-October 2005.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19663159&site=ehost-live

Relationship Between Rules of Engagement and the Law of War.  Marine Corps Gazette 86:48-49 June 2002.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=000000124963331&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Rosenthal, Joel.  New Rules for War?  Naval War College Review 57:91-101 Summer-Autumn 2004.
Please note that when using the link supplied, the wrong author is displayed in the abstract; but the article is correct.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15287978&site=ehost-live

Roth, Kenneth.  The Law of War in the War on Terror.  Foreign Affairs 83:2-7 January-February 2004.
The war on terrorism launched by United States President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. has broad and meaningful implications on the established norms and concepts of the laws of war.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=11781717

Schmitt, Michael N.  The International Court of Justice and the Use of Nuclear Weapons.  Naval War College Review 51:91-116 Spring 1998.
Also available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=27501152&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD
 

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