The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, From Flying Fortresses to Drones

摘要

"Why did the United States conduct the bombing of Iraq in 1991... so differently from the bombing of North Korea in the 1950s? Have developments in international law . . . made a difference for U.S. practice? Or should one argue the United States at the turn of the millennium has simply been fighting different wars rather than fighting wars differently?" (p. 4) These are the questions posed by co-editor Matthew Evangelista and tackled by the twelve authors featured in this book, which grew out of a multidisciplinary workshop hosted by Cornell University in 2011.