Current issues in the law of armed conflict: weapons, targets and international criminal liability8/28/2023 ![]() ![]() This is made clear by the evolution of this branch of international law through the last century and a half, a period in which the limitation of tactics and weapons has literally blossomed: a quick tour of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC)’s online databases suffices to make one aware of the large number of treaties and customs regulating hostilities. The whole history of IHL – also known as jus in bello or, as it is still referred to, Law of Armed Conflict ( LOAC) – is thus a history of limitation. ![]() While, intuitively, the goal of warfare is to overcome the enemy, IHL imposes certain constraints on parties to a conflict: their ultimate rationale is to curb State and non-State actors’ tendency to resort to whatever tactic or weapon to succeed in their effort. ![]() One of the bedrock rules of international humanitarian law ( IHL) is that the right of parties to an armed conflict ‘to choose methods and means of warfare is not unlimited’: 1 limitations exist. ![]()
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