Review: International Law: Guerilla Et Droit Humanitaire
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207803300316 |
| Date | 01 September 1978 |
| Published date | 01 September 1978 |
| Author | Geoffrey Best |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
stantial
naval
capability
in
peacetime' which will
require
a
'revolution
in
Canadian
political
and
defence
thought.'
One
may agree
that
such
change
could
'prove
to
be
the
most
beneficial
form
of
Canadian
defence
activity for
the
remainder
of
the
century
and
well
into
the
next,' and
still insist
that
it
will
require
not
only
new
political
and
military
direc-
tions
but
some
fundamental
economic change
which
unfortunately
seems
unlikely. For
the
future
the
author
favours
a
slight
increase
in
military
manpower
and
substantial
increases
in
equipment expenditure,
mainly
for
ships
and
planes.
How
this
can
be
done,
without
increasing
defence
budgets
beyond
3
per
cent
of
gross
national
product,
is
not
explained.
Clearly
advanced, however,
is
the
necessity
for a re-evaluation
of
old
assumptions
which
have
guided
defence
planners
for too long.
Indeed
the
major contribution
of
Cuthbertson's
book
is
that
it
provokes
pre-
cisely
the
kind
of
informed debate
which
has
too
often
been
missing
in
discussions
of
Canadian
defence.
A.M.J.
Hyatt/University
of
Western
Ontario
INTERNATIONAL
LAW
GUERILLA
ET
DROIT
HUMANITAIRE
Michel
Veuthey
Geneva:
Institut
Henry-Dunant,
1976,
xvi,
432pp
The
author
is
a
jurist
in
the
service
of
the
International
Committee
of
the
Red
Cross.
His
periodical
writings,
conference
attendances,
and
activities
as
a
delegate of
the
icRc
during
the
past
few
years
have increas-
ingly
suggested
that
he
is
its
rising
star
on
the
guerilla
side.
Now
he has
unmistakably
arrived.
This
fine
book,
although
principally
a
contribu-
tion
to
the
ongoing debate
in
which
his
organization
is
crucially
con-
cerned,
and
although
framed
within
the
categories
of
international
law,
is
also
an
excellently
thorough
and
searching
analysis
of
the
character
of
guerilla
warfare.
Law
forms
its
structure,
but
there
is
enough
histori-
cal,
political,
and
military
matter
too
for
practitioners
of
those
sciences
to
be
able
to
appreciate
it.
Appreciation,
moreover,
is
blessedly
easy, for
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