书目名称 | Honest Errors? Combat Decision-Making 75 Years After the Hostage Case |
编辑 | Nobuo Hayashi,Carola Lingaas |
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概述 | Chapters structured in chronological and thematic arc strengthen understanding of concept’s evolution and expansion.Cutting-edge historical research using contemporaneous material undergirds critical |
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描述 | .This book marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 .Hostage. Case in which a US military tribunal in Nuremberg acquitted General Lothar Rendulic of devastating Northern Norway on account of his honest factual error. The volume critically reappraises the law and facts underlying his trial, the no second-guessing rule in customary international humanitarian law (IHL) that is named after the general himself, and the assessment of modern battlefield decisions..Using recently discovered documents, this volume casts major doubts on Rendulic’s claim that he considered the region’s total devastation and the forcible evacuation of all of its inhabitants imperatively demanded by military necessity at the time. This book’s analysis of court records reveals how the tribunal failed to examine relevant facts or explain the Rendulic Rule’s legal origin. This anthology shows that, despite the .Hostage. .Case.’s ambiguity and occasional suggestions to thecontrary, objective reasonableness forms part of the reasonable commander test under IHL and the mistake of fact defence under international criminal law (ICL) to which the rule has given rise. This collection also identifies modern warfare’s charac |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | Devastation Finnmark 1994; Hostage Case; Mistake of Fact; Information Communications Technology (ICT); E |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-611-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-6265-613-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-6265-611-6 |
copyright | T.M.C. Asser Press and the authors 2024 |