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Adjudication Deferred: Command Responsibility for War Crimes and US Military Justice from My Lai to Haditha and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

William C. Peters
William C. Peters*
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Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, SUNY at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, USA. Email: wpete002@plattsburgh.edu
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The public international law doctrine of command responsibility, like many firmly accepted rules in law, is more clearly stated than consistently applied. Intended to establish a base level of order and responsibility for sustained violence endemic to the inherently ugly nature of war, even state militaries of fully mature Western democracies demonstrate difficulty appreciating its importance and applying its law.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 925 - 952
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Copyright © 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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