Chapter

Military objectives

David Turns

Routledge handbook of the law of armed conflict

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

p. 139-156

English

The concept of military objective has acquired general applicability across the spectrum of armed conflict and in all the known domains of warfare. This chapter outlines the development of the concept and the formulation of the definition in law, along with its interpretation and selected problems that have arisen in practice in recent military operations and are likely to be relevant to future operations.

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