A new discourse on war? On 3 April 2006, the British Defence Secretary, John Reid, gave a talk before a largely military audience about the rules of twenty-first century warfare. For centuries, he told his audience, conflict between tribes, cities and states had been unbridled and savage. Only gradually had mankind developed a range of conventions that could be applied to constrain and moderate what was, in essence, a brutal activity. Eventually those agreements had become rules which over time had become laws. Much had been achieved, he added, in the current legal frameworks which went by the name of international humanitarian law. However, warfare continues to evolve, and in its moral dimensions we now have to cope with the deliberate regression towards barbaric terrorism. [download]
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