Great powers have always resisted rules that might cramp their battle plans. Even after the second world war, with memories ...

Instead he was following both his conscience and arguments set out in a work that—it is said—he kept under his pillow while ...

And of course, you have to respect the rules of the laws of war. For example, you cannot just send missiles and anything on Israel without discriminating between military targets and civilian targets.

Dismissing the importance of the law of war is a recipe for strategic disaster, the author of this op-ed argues. Here, U.S. soldiers provide suppressing fire during an exercise at Novo Selo ...

Old principles in the law of war, like distinction and proportionality, play out differently at sea and virtually no one in the U.S. armed forces is savvy. Every officer deployed to an operational ...

The war’s heartbreaking civilian toll is inextricably linked to that terrorist government’s refusal to obey the laws of war, its unwillingness to surrender no matter how much its own people ...