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Aside from banning certain weaponry and exempting some targets under narrow conditions, the militaries of the world could always cite “necessity” to do nearly anything they wanted within the fight. Pictet’s ambitious rebranding project was to reverse polarities: the laws of war would become constraining rather than permissive. Humanity would define the terms of violence rather than eking out minor exceptions on the margins of its reign.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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