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How Now Shall We Fight? The Relevance of the Law of Armed Conflict to the United States and Its Coalition Members in Light of the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September 2001
This Naval War College Point Paper was prepared in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The Naval War College commissioned more than thirty papers addressing strategy and policy, operational concepts, and national security decision making related to the terror war. These papers were intended as contributions to U.S. national security policy deliberations, and to assist the U.S. Navy as it planned its response to future terrorist threats. "This paper addresses three issues regarding LOAC [Law of Armed Conflict] relevance and its impact on how we are to fight this new war. First, it analyzes what has changed on the battlefield since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Second, it discusses the issues such changes have created. And third, where appropriate it suggests changes to make the LOAC more relevant to U.S. war conduct in order to afford operational commanders an improved framework to use in armed conflicts."
Navy Warfare Development Command (U.S.)
DeAlicante, Tony F.
2002-05-23
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Other Costs of Coalition Building -- How to Buy Friends and Intimidate (Former) Enemies
"The war against terror, like most wars that the United States has fought with a coalition, costs more than just the outward cost of paying for the U.S. military. In addition to the huge cost of the U.S. military machine are less obvious expenditures of economic and political capital (often with economic consequences), offered as carrots to entice other countries to support the U.S. led coalition. Although we would like to believe that other countries are fighting alongside the U.S. out of altruism there are substantial numbers of self-interest driven expectations of a quid pro quo from the U.S. as a reward for lending support to the coalition effort. Toward this end, there are multiple economic and diplomatic tools that the U.S. has in its arsenal. Some of these tools are more controversial than others, but all available tools are used and considered as a cost of doing business in fighting a war in the global environment in which we live today. This paper looks at the economic and diplomatic tools with economic consequences that the United States has utilized in building the U.S led coalition in the war against terrorism. This paper addresses the pros and cons of bringing into a coalition states that are unsavory allies that are needed in order to effectively prosecute the current war."
Naval War College (U.S.)
De Alicante, Tony F.
2002-05-15
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How Now Shall We Fight? The Relevance of the Law of Armed Conflict to the United States and It's Coalition Members in Light of the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September 2001
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the war in Afghanistan that followed have presented situations never before encountered by the United States in armed conflict and have changed some of the ways in which the U.S. conducts warfare. The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) has not kept up with those changes. As a result, the U.S. must examine whether the application of the LOAC is still relevant to how we fight wars and against whom we fighting in the twenty-first century, and make necessary adjustments so that operational commanders will have a framework to use in warfare that is current and relevant to helping them maintain superiority on the battlefield. This paper points to some of what has changed on the battlefield with regard to U.S., coalition and enemy forces since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It discusses what issues those changes have created, and where the LOAC needs changes, suggests changes designed to make the LOAC more relevant to how the U.S. fights wars in order to provide operational commanders with an improved framework to use in armed conflicts. This paper also addresses the point that not as much has changed as one might think and that the LOAC will remain basically intact.
Naval War College (U.S.)
De Alicante, Tony F.
2002-02-04
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