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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Military Objectives

Marco Sassòli

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
September 2015

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 25 March 2023

Subject(s):
Armed conflict — Military objectives — Weapons — Ius ad bellum — Humanitarian intervention — Armed forces — Peace keeping

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 According to an uncontroversial principle of customary international humanitarian law (Customary International Law; Humanitarian Law, International) codified in Art. 48 Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I (1977) (‘AP I’), parties to an international armed conflict must distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives (see the Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law published by the International Committee of the Red Cross [‘ICRC’] in Henckaerts and Doswald-Beck 3–8, 25–29; see also...
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