The author has been following the establishment of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) as called for in the Treaty of Rome since first teaching an elective, Morality and War: Implications for the War Fighter, at the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) in January 2000. Almost from the beginning, his thoughts harkened back to what he believed Winston Churchill was warning us about the future - his words were something like, "Be ever mindful of the ghost of Nuremberg coming back to haunt us." This notion haunts us today. According to author Bradley Smith, it was at America's...
The author has been following the establishment of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) as called for in the Treaty of Rome since first te...