 | Theodor Meron - 1998 - 360 páginas
...advocated a harsh and violent war on the theory that the harsher the war, the shorter it would be: "[t]he more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief." 6 To this end, the law of war should impose certain limitations on the basic "principles of justice,... | |
 | Gabrielle Kirk McDonald - 2000 - 2506 páginas
...same time, of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief. Article 30 Ever since the formation and coexistence of modern nations and ever since wars have become... | |
 | Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer E. Turpin - 1999 - 857 páginas
...a curious anticipation of General Powell's doctrine of brief wars won by overwhelming force, . . . The ultimate object of all modern war is a renewed...the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief (Art. XXIX). Ever since the enactment of the Lieber Code, military lawyers have advised US field commanders... | |
 | Richard L. Fuchs - 2002 - 210 páginas
...same time of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...pursued the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief.80 General Sherman had attempted what he could to avenge the stain of misdeeds practiced at Fort... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 542 páginas
...limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable" (Art. 15); "The more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity" (Art. 29). af Jochnick and Normand conclude (1994a:55) that legal warfare has not been more humane... | |
 | David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Bice Maiguashca - 2005 - 268 páginas
...making victory more difficult. To quote the author of the first modern code of war, Francis Lieber, the 'more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief.'76 Irrespective of these strategic and normative considerations. President Bush and his administration... | |
 | C. A. J. Coady - 2007
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 | Lawrence Rockwood - 2007 - 252 páginas
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 | Brian McAllister Linn - 2007 - 328 páginas
...the means to obtain great ends of state, or to consist of defense against wrong." The great aim or "ultimate object of all modern war is a renewed state of peace," while "the destruction of the enemy in modern war, and indeed, modern war itself, are means to obtain... | |
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Modern times are distinguished from earlier ages by the existence, at one and the same time, of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition ; war is the exception. The ultimate object... 
