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“By narrowly targeting our action against those who want to kill us and not the people they hide among,” Obama avowed, “we are choosing the course of action least likely to result in the loss of innocent life.” Americans could rest assured that their president was defending them ethically.However, tactical blocks on communications platforms and key websites are employed. The large numbers of boots on the ground that had defined the Iraq War, and which had resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of Iraqi civilians, had been replaced with unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones. The United States maintains the Fort Irwin National Training Center with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment serving in the OPFOR role.The president also proudly affirmed that he was fighting the war on terror humanely. The related concept of aggressor squadron is used by some air forces.

His argument in Humane articulates a disillusionment that many intellectuals underwent in the Obama era, as the war on terror dragged on, bringing loss of civilian life abroad and a vast surveillance apparatus at home, all under the guise of humanity. In this way, Humane is a prehistory of our era, in which the precision drone strike has replaced massive aerial bombardment, small footprint Special Forces have replaced the ground invasion, and the United States remains entangled in wars around the world.Moyn himself has not always identified humane war, or even war itself, as a major obstacle to peace in the 1990s, at the beginning of his career, he was, briefly, a liberal internationalist who believed force was sometimes necessary to achieve greater ends. The book reconstructs a centuries-old debate between those who insisted that war be fought humanely and those who were concerned that, by making combat more palatable, humane war would do little but promote endless conflict. This focus may appear counterintuitive: If wars are fought, why not make them less destructive? But Humane makes the case that humane warfare brings its own set of hazards.

This was especially true in the United States, which in 1917 had broken 141 years of tradition by sending troops to fight a European war that many soon viewed as pointless and illegitimate. The carnage of World War I—the trenches of the Western Front, the Armenian genocide, the British blockade of the European continent—made clear to many contemporary observers that war could never be fought without enormous human cost it could only be abolished. For much of the twentieth century’s first half, the prospect of a war without brutality appeared remote. Foreign policy for decades.Until relatively recently, debates about humane war were largely theoretical.

Troops fully left Vietnam in 1975, millions of Vietnamese had perished in the war.The escalation of the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s drew strong opposition from the American public—by 1968 the war was, Moyn notes, “terminally unpopular”—but the antiwar movement was largely concerned with the moral and legal basis on which the United States had entered the war, rather than with the atrocities that U.S. While several of these activities were legal—there were no formal restrictions against aerial bombardment or napalm—many of them were not, to say nothing of the fact that all were immoral. Forces killed civilians based “on the barest suspicion of Viet Cong involvement” executed and tortured POWs forcibly relocated villages laced the countryside with land mines made expansive use of napalm and phosphorus and indiscriminately bombed North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. For much of the Vietnam War, U.S.

Military without opposing the war itself, he urged other Americans to take a stand against its extraordinary brutality.Soon after the war ended, a novel American coalition “concerned with the fate of the innocent in war” emerged. Taylor’s 1970 book, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, Moyn writes, “made allegations of war crimes ‘respectable’ by moving them from the far left to the liberal center.” Moyn maintains that Taylor’s book was so consequential because he was otherwise unwilling to criticize the U.S. One of the most important responses to My Lai was written by Telford Taylor, a Columbia law professor, who earlier in his career had served as chief counsel at the Nuremberg Trials. Army company’s murder of more than 500 South Vietnamese civilians. A turning point came in 1969, when the journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre, which described a U.S.

Decision-makers that they could no longer rely on large-scale mobilization. The public opposition to the Vietnam War, however, showed U.S. World War II, Korea, and Vietnam were “total wars,” involving the mass mobilization of society and the indiscriminate targeting of civilians, who produced the matériel that enabled battle. The Additional Protocols made three interventions: They “clearly formalized” civilian immunity they prohibited “excessive” collateral damage and they “called for precautions in targeting.” Taken together, the protocols “affirmed that the point of war was to weaken military capacities on the other side, absolutely prohibiting the direct targeting of civilians.” While the United States never ratified the Additional Protocols, by the 1980s the American military had in effect embraced them.The Additional Protocols reflected what might be termed the “de-massification” of war that started after Vietnam.

Military started to assert itself through air power, Special Forces, and the system of international bases it had developed after World War II.The seeds of humane war were thus planted, though they would only bear fruit during the Gulf War of 1990–1991. The AVF’s advent also began to transform the “American Way of War.” Whereas the United States had previously relied, as the historian Rose Lopez Keravuori has summarized, on “large masses of forces” using “overwhelming power to destroy the enemy,” after Vietnam the U.S. In short, Americans no longer needed to worry about being forced to die in foreign lands for unclear purposes. The military became an all-volunteer force, concluding a 33-year period in which ordinary Americans had been conscripted en masse to fight their nation’s wars.From 1973 onward, America’s wars were fought only by those who volunteered to fight them, which both undercut the antiwar movement and changed Americans’ relationship to their armed forces. In 1973, Congress refused to extend the draft.

War, was carried out with a phalanx of military lawyers at the ready.