U.S. military operations: law, policy, and practice

"In U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, a distinguished group of military legal experts provide important insight into how law influences the conduct of all military operations, both in peacetime and in war. The text covers a range of operational issues to include: legal challenges inherent in special operations; legal complexities of coalition operations; legal regulation of military cyber-defense measures; how military lawyers advise commanders making life and death target engagement decisions; the important military interaction with the International Committee of the Red Cross; the role military justice plays in ensuring disciplined military operations; and how military commanders leverage claims authority to contribute to mission accomplishment. Written by authors whose expertise includes both content and implementation of the law, they offer insight into not just the what, but the equally important how and why of legal regulation of military operations"--Unedited summary from book cover.

The U.S. judge advocate in contemporary military operations : counsel, conscience, advocate, consigliere, or all of the above? / Renn Gade -- Modern weapons and the law of armed conflict / Dave Wallace and Shane R. Reeves -- Legal classification of military operations / Geoffrey S. Corn -- The jus ad bellum / Geoffrey S. Corn -- Military cyberspace operations / Gary D. Brown, Paul Walker, and Anthony Bell III -- Targeting and the law of armed conflict / Gary P. Corn, James Dapper and Winston Williams -- Developing rules of engagement : operationalizing law, policy and military imperatives at the strategic level / Gary P. Corn -- Tactical implementation of rules of engagement in a multinational force reality / Jody M. Prescott -- Detention operations at the tactical and operational levels : a procedural approach / Sandra L. Hodgkinson -- Detention operations at the tactical and operational levels : a procedural approach / Jeffrey Bovarnick and Jack Vrett -- Multinational operations / Richard C. Gross and Ian Henderson -- Modern military operations and the International Committee of the Red Cross : the Department of Defense's unique relationship with the guardian of international hu…