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Targeted Killing And Just War: Reconciling Kill-Capture Missions, International Law, And The Combatant Civilian Framework, Louis H. Guard
Targeted Killing And Just War: Reconciling Kill-Capture Missions, International Law, And The Combatant Civilian Framework, Louis H. Guard
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This paper addresses how kill-capture missions can be reconciled with the underlying principles of just war theory. Part I of this paper outlines the traditional just war combatant-civilian framework and the basic legal doctrines currently thought to apply to targeted killing. Part II advances a new conception of the traditional combatant-civilian framework that incorporates the third category of alternative belligerents by showing how groups such as al Qaeda are neither combatants nor non-combatants in the just war sense and thus compel the creation of a third conceptual category. Part III of the paper applies the new framework to the kill-capture …