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Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare

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  • Comprehensive coverage of current targeting (use of force) issues

  • Written by a team of experts with extensive practical and academic experience

  • Complements legal analysis by a set of interdisciplinary perspectives

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Context

  2. Constraints

  3. Special Issues in Targeting

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About this book

This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of targeting. It is intended for use by the military, government legal advisers and academics.  The book is suitable for use in both military training and educational programs and in Bachelor and Master degree level courses on such topics as War Studies and Strategic Studies.

The book first explores the context of targeting, its evolution and the current targeting process and characteristics. An overview of the legal and ethical constraints on targeting as an operational process follows. It concludes by surveying contemporary issues in targeting such as the potential advent of autonomous weapon systems, ‘non-kinetic’ targeting, targeting in multinational military operations and leadership decapitation in counter-terrorism operations.

The deep practical experience and academic background of the contributors ensures comprehensive treatment of current targeting and use of force issues.

Paul Ducheine is Professor for Cyber Operations and Cyber Security, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands; and Professor of Law of Military Cyber Operations and Cyber Security at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Michael Schmitt is Charles H. Stockton Professor & Director, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and Professor of Public International Law, University of Exeter, UK. Frans Osinga is Chair of the War Studies Department, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands, and Professor of Military Operational Art and Sciences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands

    Paul A.L. Ducheine, Frans P.B. Osinga

  • Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, United States Naval War College, Newport, USA

    Michael N. Schmitt

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare

  • Editors: Paul A.L. Ducheine, Michael N. Schmitt, Frans P.B. Osinga

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-072-5

  • Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the authors 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-071-8Published: 11 November 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-072-5Published: 03 November 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 299

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict

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