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Chapter 2: International Status And Navigation Of Military Vessels And Military Aircraft Apr 2024

Chapter 2: International Status And Navigation Of Military Vessels And Military Aircraft

International Law Studies

The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, …


Chapter 4: Safeguarding U.S. National Interests In The Maritime Environment Apr 2024

Chapter 4: Safeguarding U.S. National Interests In The Maritime Environment

International Law Studies

The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, …


Chapter 6: Adherence And Enforcement Apr 2024

Chapter 6: Adherence And Enforcement

International Law Studies

The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, …


Chapter 5: Principles And Sources Of The Law Of Armed Conflict Apr 2024

Chapter 5: Principles And Sources Of The Law Of Armed Conflict

International Law Studies

The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations is used in the United States and throughout the world as a restatement of U.S. doctrinal law positions on matters affecting the operations of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Judge advocates and legal advisers have occasion to conduct deeper research to identify the context and source of the rules reflected in the Commander’s Handbook. Responding to this need, an Annotated Supplement to The Commander’s Handbook was produced in 1997 and published as volume 73 of International Law Studies. In the intervening decades, …


Navy Staff Officer’S Guide: Leading With Impact From Squadron To Opnav, Ed Hernandez, Dale C. Rielage Apr 2024

Navy Staff Officer’S Guide: Leading With Impact From Squadron To Opnav, Ed Hernandez, Dale C. Rielage

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


The Fall And Rise Of French Sea Power: France’S Quest For An Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963, Richard Norton, Hugues Canuel Apr 2024

The Fall And Rise Of French Sea Power: France’S Quest For An Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963, Richard Norton, Hugues Canuel

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Reluctant Retrenchment—America’S Response To The Rise Of China, Robert S. Ross Apr 2024

Reluctant Retrenchment—America’S Response To The Rise Of China, Robert S. Ross

Naval War College Review

China’s rise augurs a power transition that challenges the preeminent security position of the United States in East Asia and has led to an incoherent retrenchment that both undermines that position and complicates efforts to recapitalize the Navy to face that challenge effectively.


President's Forum, Pete Garvin Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College Apr 2024

President's Forum, Pete Garvin Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Oplan 1003v—Operation Iraqi Freedom From A Planner’S Perspective, Don Thieme Apr 2024

Oplan 1003v—Operation Iraqi Freedom From A Planner’S Perspective, Don Thieme

Naval War College Review

Unlike the political decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and the violent insurgency that followed, the operational planning that went into the invasion has not been studied granularly. This history of that planning effort offers rich insight both for historians and for planners who may be called on to plan another major conventional combined-arms operation in the future.


From The Editors, Carnes Lord Editor, Robert Ayer Managing Editor Apr 2024

From The Editors, Carnes Lord Editor, Robert Ayer Managing Editor

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Autumn 2023 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Apr 2024

Autumn 2023 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


“Unwilling Or Unable”, Lucy V. Jordan Mar 2024

“Unwilling Or Unable”, Lucy V. Jordan

International Law Studies

Critics of the unwilling or unable doctrine suggest that it could undermine the United Nations collective security system and argue that it requires an unacceptable ceding of a State’s territorial sovereignty. Increased reliance on the doctrine following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, particularly in relation to the use of force against ISIL in Syria since 2014, has caused the doctrine to face significant scrutiny. The purpose of this article is to ascertain whether the unwilling or unable doctrine has reached customary international law status. If found to be the case, the doctrine would confirm the right of States to act …


Manifestly Unlawful: Why Russian Military Commanders Must Disobey A Nuclear Launch Order Against Ukraine, Christopher J. Hart Dec 2023

Manifestly Unlawful: Why Russian Military Commanders Must Disobey A Nuclear Launch Order Against Ukraine, Christopher J. Hart

International Law Studies

Applying the international legal framework governing the use of nuclear weapons to the facts of the war in Ukraine leads to a clear answer to the question of whether the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine by Russia would be legal. While the 1996 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons did not conclusively decide whether the use of nuclear weapons was per se illegal, by applying the legal framework articulated by the International Court of Justice to the facts of Russia’s war against Ukraine it is clear that any conceivable use of …


Awakening The Law Of Contraband In The Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Martin Fink Oct 2023

Awakening The Law Of Contraband In The Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Martin Fink

International Law Studies

Following the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, both Russia and Ukraine announced measures against shipping that may have introduced counter-contraband operations into the maritime dimension of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The law of contraband, which is at the heart of the law of naval warfare, regulates such operations. The law of contraband has, however, not been often used in current conflicts and some of its details are not crystalized as generally accepted law. Awakening this instrument in the current conflict brings questions for both belligerents and non-State parties, some of whom have adopted a position of qualified neutrality that …


Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy In The New Republic, Evan Wilson, Thomas Sheppard Oct 2023

Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy In The New Republic, Evan Wilson, Thomas Sheppard

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Military Agility: Ensuring Rapid And Effective Transition From Peace To War, Richard Norton, Meir Finkel Oct 2023

Military Agility: Ensuring Rapid And Effective Transition From Peace To War, Richard Norton, Meir Finkel

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Bidding For The 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’S Cold War Battle With Nato, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Heather L. Dichter Oct 2023

Bidding For The 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’S Cold War Battle With Nato, Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Heather L. Dichter

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts And The Crucible Of Decision, Anna Matilde Bassoli, James Stavridis Oct 2023

To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts And The Crucible Of Decision, Anna Matilde Bassoli, James Stavridis

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Getting China Wrong, David Adamic, Aaron L. Friedberg Oct 2023

Getting China Wrong, David Adamic, Aaron L. Friedberg

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Mastering The Art Of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz And Victory In The Pacific, Dale C. Rielage, Trent Hone Oct 2023

Mastering The Art Of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz And Victory In The Pacific, Dale C. Rielage, Trent Hone

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


On Naval Theory, Milan Vego Oct 2023

On Naval Theory, Milan Vego

Naval War College Review

Too many naval officers mistrust, neglect, or even ignore the importance of naval theory, instead placing too much reliance on advanced technologies. Yet without full understanding of naval theory, it is very difficult to have the broad outlook necessary to develop naval doctrine, train one’s naval forces, and employ those forces successfully in a war.


Disadvantages Ashore—Constraints On Achieving Integrated All-Domain Naval Power, Sam J. Tangredi Oct 2023

Disadvantages Ashore—Constraints On Achieving Integrated All-Domain Naval Power, Sam J. Tangredi

Naval War College Review

Strategists and analysts should be aware that the recently issued triservices strategy suffers from at least six political-bureaucratic-doctrinal disadvantages that very easily could turn into material disadvantages if the U.S. Navy were to face a competent enemy on the actual oceans.


From The Editors, Robert Ayer Managing Editor Oct 2023

From The Editors, Robert Ayer Managing Editor

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


President's Forum, Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College Oct 2023

President's Forum, Shoshana Chatfield Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, President, Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Summer 2023 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College Oct 2023

Summer 2023 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Does International Humanitarian Law Confer Undue Legitimacy On Violence In War?, Kieran R.J. Tinkler Sep 2023

Does International Humanitarian Law Confer Undue Legitimacy On Violence In War?, Kieran R.J. Tinkler

International Law Studies

International humanitarian law is lauded as a civilizing force that seeks to limit the effects of war for humanitarian reasons. There is, however, an increasing sense that IHL has facilitated rather than restrained military operations by conferring undue legitimacy on violence in war. This article focuses on the nature of the relationship between legitimacy and IHL to ascertain whether this is indeed the case. It concludes that, while IHL alone cannot confer "normative legitimacy" on battlefield conduct, it does frame "empirical legitimacy." Whether such legitimacy is unwarranted is, ultimately, best judged by reference to morality. Yet insistence on the pre-eminence …


The Legal Boundaries Of (Digital) Information Or Psychological Operations Under International Humanitarian Law, Tilman Rodenhäuser Sep 2023

The Legal Boundaries Of (Digital) Information Or Psychological Operations Under International Humanitarian Law, Tilman Rodenhäuser

International Law Studies

“Information operations” or “psychological operations” have long been part of armed conflicts. Among Western militaries, they are commonly understood as the employment of communication or other means to influence the views, attitudes, or behavior of adversaries or civilian populations to achieve political and military objectives. Chinese military strategy describes “psychological offense and defense” as “a combat action that uses specific information and media to influence the psychology and behavior of the target object through rational propaganda, deterrence and emotional guidance based on strategic intentions and combat missions.” Likewise, Russian military doctrine elaborates on concepts such as “psychological warfare” and on …


Sun Tzu In The West: The Anglo-American Art Of War, Jonathan Welch, Peter Lorge Jun 2023

Sun Tzu In The West: The Anglo-American Art Of War, Jonathan Welch, Peter Lorge

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


A Great And Rising Nation: Naval Exploration And Global Empire In The Early U.S. Republic, Michael Romero, Michael A. Verney Jun 2023

A Great And Rising Nation: Naval Exploration And Global Empire In The Early U.S. Republic, Michael Romero, Michael A. Verney

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Research & Debate—Historical Parallels In Command: Nelson And Spruance, Robert C. Rubel Jun 2023

Research & Debate—Historical Parallels In Command: Nelson And Spruance, Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.