The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and ...
247 This view is corroborated by the analyses of Roberts, “The Laws of War: Problems of Implementation in Contemporary Conflicts,” 29–30, and Kalshoven, Reflections on the Law of War, 677, 691–692. 248 Frits Kalshoven is right to note ...
A comparison of the early careers of the West Point classes of 1846 and May 1861—classes who graduated at the outset of a war—conveys how radically different the experience was for young officers in the Civil War. The class of 1846, ...
It is the editors' conviction that the best way to achieve this is by bridging the traditional divide between international legal theory, intellectual history, and legal and political history.
This book tells a different story, showing how the final text of the Conventions, far from being an unabashedly liberal blueprint, was the outcome of a series of political struggles among the drafters.
This book tells a different story, showing how the final text of the Conventions, far from being an unabashedly liberal blueprint, was the outcome of a series of political struggles among the drafters.