Abstract
This is not an easy book to review. It is a line-by-line commentary on a separate work. The old reviewer's standby—that it deserves a place on the shelves of every library—comes to mind. As its authorship would lead one to expect, it is a substantial and careful study. Like William H. Boothby's The law of targeting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; reviewed in International Affairs 89: 4, July 2013), it states its ‘target audience’, essentially users of the Department of Defense's law of war manual itself, but also ‘all those with an interest and/or professional involvement in the conduct of military and other operations associated with conflict’ (p. 4). Anyone considering its purchase could, however, wait for the opportunity to compare this book to Michael A. Newton's significantly cheaper edited volume The United States Department of Defense law of war manual: commentary and critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), promised for the end of 2018.
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