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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

J. Ashley Roach*
Affiliation:
JAGC, U.S. Navy; International Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Navy

Abstract

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Type
Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1980

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References

1 International Law–The Conduct of Armed Conflict and Air Operations, AFP 110-31, para. 10-7, page 10-3 et seq. (1976).

* Department of Government, Georgetown University.

2 The Law of Land Warfare, FM 27-10, para. 497, pp. 177-78 (1956).

3 Grand Strategy: September 1939-June 1941, at 165-71,182, 551-52 (J.R.M. Butler, ed. 1957).

* Major, Canadian Department of National Defense, Chief International Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General. Member of the Canadian Delegation to the UN Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons.

4 The United Kingdom statement reads “in relation to Article I, that the term ‘armed conflict’ of itself and in its context implies a certain level of intensity of military operations which must be present before the Conventions or the Protocol are to apply to any given situation, and that this level of intensity cannot be less than that required for the application of Protocol II, by virtue of Article 1 of the Protocol, to internal conflicts.” DA Pam 27-1-1, at 140.

* Library of Congress.

** Presently free lance writer. Formerly with the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Department of the Army and member of the U.S. Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on Humanitarian Law. 5 Kalshoven, Remarks in “The New Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict,” Report of the International Symposium of the Netherlands Red Cross on the Protocols of 1977 Additional to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, The Hague, 25-26 September 1978, at page 33.