Chapter XIX of the Manual provides some notes relating to treaties and other documents of relevance to the law of war and the content of these notes is considered in Chapter 19 of the Book. Law of war treaties to which the US is and, respectively, is not a party, treaties that the US has signed but not ratified and treaties that the US has neither signed nor ratified are variously noted and discussed. Particular sections are devoted, respectively, to: the Lieber Code; the 1856 Paris Declaration; the 1864 GWS; the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration; the 1899 and 1907 Hague Declarations on Weapons; the Hague Regulations; the 1923 Hague Air and Radio Rules; the 1949 Geneva Conventions; the 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention; the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions; the Conventional Weapons Convention and its Protocols; the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Chapter subjects the Manual’s notes on each of these instruments to critical analysis