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Article: International law and terrorism.
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
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WE HAVE BEEN operating impression that the International Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) is inimical to our effective prosecution of the war on terrorism. (1) But what has come to be called lawfare is a weapon that rightly belongs in the hands of those who abide by the LOAC. I submit that our problem lies not with the LOAC, but with our failure to make our own superior claim to legitimacy over terror warfare. We have also failed to exploit legitimacy's strategic advantages in order to sever terrorist organizations and their sponsor states from the public support on which their success depends. Instead of dealing with the hyper-legalization of warfare with an uncoordinated ...
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