The Law of Aerial Bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War
The Law of Aerial Bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War
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1991年海湾战争中的空中轰炸法则
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
M. Lewis
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作者：
M. Lewis
我经常会因为判断失误而犯错。当我是对的时候，我经常会被那些立场不能俯瞰整个地面的人认为是错的。我请求您宽恕我自己的错误，这永远不会是故意的，并请您支持他人的错误，他们可能会谴责他们不会谴责的东西，如果看到它的所有部分。-托马斯·杰斐逊1990年8月2日，伊拉克军队入侵并占领科威特，开始了一系列长达七个月的事件，后来被称为波斯湾战争。也许对这些事件研究最彻底的是1991年1月17日开始的为期38天的空袭行动，这标志着列队对伊拉克的联军进攻的开始，在伊拉克从科威特撤军后结束。关于空袭及其目标、它对未来军事力量使用的影响，以及它在多大程度上符合国际法，人们已经写了很多东西。尽管本文将重点讨论最后一个主题，但对空袭行动的背景理解对于认真考虑军事必要性和相称性问题至关重要，这些问题是法律分析的核心。
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. —Thomas Jefferson On August 2,1990, Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait, beginning a seven-monthlong series of events that would come to be known as the Persian Gulf war. Perhaps the most thoroughly examined of these events was the thirty-eight-day air campaign, which began on January 17,1991, and marked the beginning of the offensive by the coalition of states arrayed against Iraq, which ended after the latter’s withdrawal from Kuwait. Much has been written about the air campaign and its objectives, its implications for the future use of military force, and the extent to which it conformed to international law. Although this article will focus on the last of these topics, a contextual understanding of the air campaign is essential to a serious consideration of the military necessity and proportionality issues that lie at the heart of the legal analysis.