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Book Review – The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective

Michael Lewis, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Corn, Victor Hansen, Richard Jackson and James Schoettler , The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2009) ISBN13: 978-0-19-538921-0ISBN10: 0-19-538921-2 This book is written by six American legal scholars with experience as members of the legal profession in the US armed forces. The foreword by Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. (Deputy Judge Advocate General of the US Air Force), is followed in turn by seven chapters, dealing respectively with the law applicable to the war on terror, targeting of persons and property, detention of combatants, interrogation…