This work is a comprehensive evaluation of the effects generated by the laws of war on America's current approach to warfighting. It examines the use of counterinsurgency operations as a convenient alternative to combat operations and achieve a much desired humanization of war. The research conducted for this book focused on theorists and scholars on both sides of the argument and was complemented with real-life experiences on the battlefields where these laws and strategies had their actual effects. This research utilized the recent war in Iraq where the effects produced by COIN and the...