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Jan 30, 2002 · The only time we should consider assassination is when we need to eliminate a clear, immediate, lethal threat from abroad. In other words, assassination is a military option.
- Bruce Berkowitz
About Bruce Berkowitz was a research fellow at the Hoover...
- 2002 No. 1
Fellows. Hoover scholars form the Institution’s core and...
- Bruce Berkowitz
Mar 17, 2012 · Can state-sponsored assassination work as a strategy? And is it ever justified? Governments don't admit to it, but Iranian nuclear scientists know it happens.
Oct 15, 2021 · Military manuals have occasionally suggested that assassination is limited to non-combatants or requires a particular mens rea. For example, the Australian manual provides, “Assassination is the sudden or secret killing by treacherous means of an individual who is not a combatant, by premeditated assault, for political or religious reasons.”
Oct 10, 2024 · This post explores the norm against assassination in peace and war, its relationship to targeting opposing leaders and civilians, the legal framework associated with assassination, its occurrence in shadow conflict, and ultimately the ongoing degradation of the norm.
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. [1] [2] It may be prompted by grievances, notoriety, financial, military, political or other motives. Assassinations are ordered by both individuals and organizations, and are carried out by their accomplices.
Summary. Lieber Code (1863), Section IX: Assassination: The law of war does not allow proclaiming an individual belonging to the hostile army an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such international outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage.
Aug 6, 2024 · The release of a Russian hit man and the assassination of Israel’s enemies in Lebanon and Iran have shone a spotlight on killings carried out on state orders.
