Military Commissions
Abstract
Spaight, the noted British authority on the law of war, said of a young officer and aspiring writer, " * * * for an ambitious subaltern who wishes to be known vaguely as an author and, at the same time, not to be troubled with undue inquiry into the claim upon which his title rests, there can be no better subject than the International Law of War. For it is a quasi-military subject in which no one in the army or out of it, is very deeply interested, which everyone very contentedly takes on trust, and which may be written about without one person in ten thousand being able to tell whether the writing is adequate or not."1 The prominence into which military commissions sprang after the Second World War leads to a conclusion that an attempt to retrace the history and forecast the future of this ofttimes important tribunal is worth the risk of being likened unto Spaight's subaltern.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1953
- Accession Number
- ADA438079
Entities
People
- Joseph E. Cooper
- Thomas C. Marmon
- William P. Goodman