Walking Away from Nuremberg: Just War and the Doctrine of Command ResponsibilityThis text places the author's own experience within the context of the American military doctrine of 'command responsibility', the set of rules that holds individual officers directly responsible for the commission of war crimes under their authority. The book traces the evolution of such a doctrine from the Civil War onwards. |
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