The Principle of the Military Objective in the Law of Armed Conflict

Authors

Horace B. Robertson, Duke Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

Abstract

In their commentary on the two 1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva conventions of 1949, Michael Bothe, Karl Josef Partsch, and the late Waldemar A. Soif remark that the definition of the "military objective" in the sense of targets for attack had, until adoption of Article 52 of Protocol Additional I, "eluded all efforts to arrive at a generally acceptable solution?"

Citation

Horace B. Robertson, The Principle of the Military Objective in the Law of Armed Conflict, 8 United States Air Force Academy Journal of Legal Studies 35-70 (1997)