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The Military Commander's Necessity

The Law of Armed Conflict and its Limits

By (author) Sigrid Redse Johansen
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 3rd Oct 2019
Dimensions: w 157mm h 235mm d 28mm
Weight: 770g
ISBN-10: 1108493920
ISBN-13: 9781108493925
Barcode No: 9781108493925
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Synopsis
The idea of military necessity lies at the centre of the law of armed conflict and yet it is less than fully understood. This book analyses which legal limits govern the commander's assessment of military necessity, and argues that military necessity itself is not a limitation. Military necessity calls for a highly discretionary exercise: the assessment. Yet, there is little guidance as to how this discretionary process should be exercised, apart from the notions of 'a reasonable military commander'. A reasonable assessment of 'excessive' civilian losses are presumed to be almost intuitive. Objective standards for determining excessive civilian losses are difficult to identify, particularly when that 'excessiveness' will be understood in relative terms. The perpetual question arises: are civilian losses acceptable if the war can be won? The result is a heavy burden of assessment placed on the shoulders of the military commander.

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'Johansen's contribution is an important one that adds to the repudiation of the discredited, but stubbornly irrepressible, concept of kriegsraison geht vor kriegsmanier-the assertion that 'necessity knows no law.'' Beth Van Schaack, American Journal of International Law