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Solving the War Puzzle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

John Norton Moore
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 282 - 289
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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4 See Rummel, R. J., Death by Government (1994)Google Scholar.

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9 Since at the time this Editorial was initially written no war had occurred concerning Iraq’s failure to comply with the conditions that the UN Security Council had imposed at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, no scoring has been made for any such war in this analysis. It is already apparent, however, that there will be a robust legal debate about the United States/United Kingdom actions in that war and that any final characterization is likely to be arguable. Defensive concerns of the United States and the United Kingdom related to Iraq’s failure to adhere to Security’Council-imposed sanctions to scrap its weapons of mass destruction in the broader context of Iraqi support for terrorism and its demonstrated use of chemical weapons. Further, these concerns also embraced Iraq’s continuing’attacks against U.S. and UK aircraft law fully present on a humanitarian mission in the no-fly zones. This Gulf War II is clearly a product of a post-9/11 broader war against terrorism and it likely would not have occurred but for the 9/11 attacks against the United States.

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