Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rules of war, laws of war -- Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations -- World wars and their law of armed conflict results -- Protocols and politics -- Conflict status -- Individual battlefield status -- Law of armed conflict's four core principles -- What is a "War Crime"? -- Obedience to orders, the first defense -- Command responsibility and Respondeat Superior -- Ruses and perfidy -- Rules of engagement -- Targeting objects -- Autonomous weapons, drones, and targeted killing -- Human targeting and cross-border counter-attacks -- Torture -- Cyberwarfare -- Attacks on cultural property -- The 1980 certain conventional weapons convention -- Gas, biological, and chemical weapons treaties -- Military commissions -- Security detention.