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 ...