 | Dr. J. H. W. Verziji - 1978 - 572 էջ
...rapid steps leads them nearer to the internecine wars of savages," and Art. 29 added the theses that "The ultimate object of all modern war is a renewed state of peace" and that "th/; more vigorously wars are pursued the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief".... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1983 - 178 էջ
...same time of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...object of all modern war is a renewed state of peace. To this he added an observation that seems odd, written as it was near the midpoint of a long and bloody... | |
 | Dietrich Schindler, Jiří Toman - 1988 - 1084 էջ
...same time, of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...of all modern war is a renewed state of peace. The mote vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief. Art. 30. Ever... | |
 | Michael Howard, George J. Andreopoulos, Mark R. Shulman, Michael Eliot Howard - 1994 - 316 էջ
...greatest kindness in war is to bring it to a speedy conclusion . Article 29 of the Lieber code argued that "the more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief." About air war Douhet wrote: "Mercifully, the decision will be quick in this kind of war, since the... | |
 | Theodor Meron - 1998 - 360 էջ
...advocated a harsh and violent war on the theory that the harsher the war, the shorter it would be: "[t]he more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief." 6 To this end, the law of war should impose certain limitations on the basic "principles of justice,... | |
 | Gabrielle Kirk McDonald - 2000 - 2506 էջ
...same time, of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief. Article 30 Ever since the formation and coexistence of modern nations and ever since wars have become... | |
 | Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer E. Turpin - 1999 - 857 էջ
...a curious anticipation of General Powell's doctrine of brief wars won by overwhelming force, . . . The ultimate object of all modern war is a renewed...the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief (Art. XXIX). Ever since the enactment of the Lieber Code, military lawyers have advised US field commanders... | |
 | Richard L. Fuchs - 2002 - 210 էջ
...same time of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The...pursued the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief.80 General Sherman had attempted what he could to avenge the stain of misdeeds practiced at Fort... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 542 էջ
...limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable" (Art. 15); "The more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity" (Art. 29). af Jochnick and Normand conclude (1994a:55) that legal warfare has not been more humane... | |
 | David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Bice Maiguashca - 2005 - 268 էջ
...making victory more difficult. To quote the author of the first modern code of war, Francis Lieber, the 'more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp wars are brief.'76 Irrespective of these strategic and normative considerations. President Bush and his administration... | |
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Modern times are distinguished from earlier ages by the existence, at one and the same time, of many nations and great governments related to one another in close intercourse. Peace is their normal condition ; war is the exception. The ultimate object... 
