... Does this mean that there is something wrong with the rules themselves and that international humanitarian and military law as a whole are futile? No.
From the Hague to Geneva: enshrining the rules of warfare
Mankind’s known history is a history of wars. War has been both a driver of technological progress and a means of winning top spots on the geopolitical Olympus, much as a source of political and economic motivation and a powerful rallying factor for peoples and nations.
The Latin expression ...
... is impossible to predict a critical point in humanity. That said, an understanding of how these trends are developing nevertheless allows us to make an approximate prognosis for the future formats and methods of warfare.
Also, predictions of future wars, especially in terms of advanced weapon systems, may involve drawing analogies as a method of scientific cognition that allows knowledge to be acquired about certain systems, objects or phenomena based on their similarity to other systems, objects ...
... means”?
There is also a third view point that I find appealing: the emergence of nuclear weapons did not cancel out the category of war, but made it archaic
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. The military conflicts of the “nuclear era” are more reminiscent of the wars of the early Modern Times than the world wars of the last century. The presence or absence of nuclear weapons is an ancillary factor. The key factor here is not whether or not a side possesses nuclear weapons, but rather what the political leaders ...
... money to governments that have failed to pay sovereign, that is, intergovernmental debts. Ukraine has been allowed to receive loans for purely political reasons in order to extend the life of the anti-Russian regime.
Things may come down to real trade wars, especially in view of the illegitimate sanctions that are one of their subvarieties. Of course, one is reassured that trade wars will not lead to real wars, as they did in the past, much less to a global conflict. That a global conflict has not ...
... Russian-American relations. To sum up the event, RIAC expert
Alexey Fenenko
, Leading Researcher at the RAS Institute of International Security Problems, gave an interview sharing his views on the dangers of modern military conflicts and their similarities to the wars of 17th–18th centuries used by the European royal households to divide the continent.
What commonalities can we find between the conflicts in Iraq, former Yugoslavia, Georgia, Afghanistan, and Chechnya?
Let's start with the basics, military ...
Interview with Massimo Morelli, Columbia University
Interview
Wars and armed conflicts are very destructive in their nature, yet this is the reality we live in. Rational leaders quite often choose to embark on the path of war believing that gains from it can be higher than its cost. Massimo Morelli, professor of ...
