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The Concept of Military Objectives in International Law and Practice. By Agnieszka Jachec-Neale . Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xiv, 294. ISBN: 978-1-138-81840-8. US $160.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2016

Herb Somers*
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Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian, The Jacob Burns Law Library, The George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.USA

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12 Missy Ryan & Tim Craig, U.S. General: Kunduz Hospital was ‘Mistakenly Struck,’ Wash. Post, Oct. 7, 2015, at A9.

13 Press Release, United States Central Command, CENTCOM releases investigation into airstrike on Doctors Without Borders trauma center (Apr. 29, 2016) http://www.centcom.mil/news/press-release/april-29-centcom-releases-kunduz-investigation [https://perma.cc/A5NH-4E8J]

14 Id.

15 Id.

16 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) art. 52 §2, June 8, 1977, 1125 U.N.T.S. 3, 27.

17 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 1996 I.C.J. at 257 (July 8).

18 Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its Annex: Regulations Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, art. 25, July 29, 1899, reprinted in The Laws of Armed Conflicts: a collection of conventions, resolutions, and other documents 63-93 (Dietrich Schindler & Jiří Toman eds., 3rd ed. 1988).

19 Convention (IX) Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War, arts. 1 and 2, 18 October 1907, reprinted in The Laws of Armed Conflicts: a collection of conventions, resolutions, and other documents 811-817 (Dietrich Schindler & Jiří Toman eds., 3rd ed. 1988).

20 Hague Rules Concerning the Control of Wireless Telegraphy in Time of War and Air Warfare, February 19, 1923, reprinted in The Laws of Armed Conflicts: a collection of conventions, resolutions, and other documents 207-217 (Dietrich Schindler & Jiří Toman eds., 3rd ed. 1988).

21 Jachec-Neale, Agnieszka, The Concept of Military Objectives in International Law and Practice 21 (2015)Google Scholar.

22 Draft Rules for the Limitation of the Dangers Incurred by the Civilian Population in Time of War, International Committee of the Red Cross, 1956, reprinted in The Laws of Armed Conflicts: a collection of conventions, resolutions, and other documents 251-257 (Dietrich Schindler & Jiří Toman eds., 3rd ed. 1988).

23 The Distinction Between Military Objectives and Non-Military Objects in General and Particularly the Problems Associated with Weapons of Mass Destruction. Resolution adopted by the Institute of International Law at its session at Edinburgh, 9 September 1969, reprinted in The Laws of Armed Conflicts: a collection of conventions, resolutions, and other documents 265-266 (Dietrich Schindler & Jiří Toman eds., 3rd ed. 1988).

24 Jachec-Neale, supra note 10, at 36.

25 Id.

26 Id., at 83.

27 Id., at 115.

28 Id., at 117.

29 Id., at 161.

30 Int'l Crim. Trib. for the Former Yugoslavia [ICTY]. Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign ¶ 76 (June 13, 2000) http://www.icty.org/en/press/final-report-prosecutor-committee-established-review-nato-bombing-campaign-against-federal [https://perma.cc/3KG3-JBHU]

31 Jachec-Neale,supra note 10, at 214.

32 Id. At 261.