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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 7, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Judging Battlefield Conduct Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article-length work, “The Rule of Law in Armed Conflict” published in volume 34 of the Minnesota Journal of International Law (2025). The rule of law is an appraisal concept that purports to...
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Nobuo Hayashi
| Oct 24, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Honest Errors, the Rendulic Rule, and Modern Combat Decision-Making In 1948, in a judgment commonly known as the Hostage case, a U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg acquitted Lothar Rendulic, commander of the German 20th Mountain Army, of offences related to the...
