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Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare

... Are these rules regularly followed? Mostly not. Does this mean that there is something wrong with the rules themselves and that international humanitarian and military law as a whole are futile? No. From the Hague to Geneva: enshrining the rules of warfare Mankind’s known history is a history of wars. War has been both a driver of technological progress and a means of winning top spots on the geopolitical Olympus, much as a source of political and economic motivation and a powerful rallying factor ...

16.06.2023

Some new weapons of warfare are just new ways of using old ones

Foreign opinion Interviewee : Commodore Steven Jermy , Professor of Strategy & Leadership at University of Plymouth, UK Interviewer : Maria Prosviryakova There is a very interesting debate on whether new weapons of warfare are really that new. What are those weapons? How effective are they? And do they change the nature and definition of war so skillfully described by the military theorist Clausewitz? In an exclusive interview for the Russian International Affairs ...

16.11.2012

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    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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