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The court ruled that blind aerial bombardment was permitted only in the immediate vicinity of the operations of land forces and that only targeted aerial bombardment of military installations was permitted further from the front.
1. Jan. 2011 · Abstract. This article focuses on the law which applies during armed conflicts to aerial bombardments or missiles launched from warships. In particular, the principles of distinction and proportionality are examined and the contribution of international courts and tribunals to the law in this area is considered.
- Christine Byron
- ByronC@cardiff.ac.uk
- 2011
This paper presents a brief history of the evolution of the law of war concerning aerial bombardment prior to and during World War II. The law of war in this period was shaped primarily by the norm of reciprocity, and this norm is critical to understanding how the Allies conceived of the bombing campaign.
Geneva Conventions to the international community in 1977. While 150 states, including the US, have signed Protocol I, the US has not yet ratified it nor has it agreed to apply its provisions to nuclear weapons.20 Signing the protocol doesn’t bind the US, but it does oblige the US to behave
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C. S. Maier – Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II 430 wanton terror designed primarily to terrorize populations, whereas the subse-quent more destructive Allied attacks on Italian, German, and then Japanese urban centres (including the massive 1945 assault on Tokyo that may have
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Until conclusion of the Diplomatic Conference in 1977, the nations of the world were less than successful in adopting workable rules relating to aerial bombardment. As a result, much of the legal writing and practice for more than half a century (including two World Wars) attempted an analogy to Hague Convention IX of 1907 Concerning ...
Although both conventions prohibited the bombardment of undefended places, there was no international prohibition against indiscriminate bombardment of non-combatants in defended places, a shortcoming in the rules that was greatly exacerbated by aerial bombardment.
