Unlawful combatants : a genealogy of the irregular fighter /

The book investigates the emergence and the development of irregular fighters, such as guerrillas, rebels, insurgents, and terrorists throughout the history of modern war. It presents a historically based critique of the twenty-first century notion of the irregular fighter as an 'unlawful comba...

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Main Author:	Scheipers, Sibylle
Corporate Author:	Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Irregular warfare > History. Unlawful combatants > History. War (International law) > History. Military history, Modern.