laws (and customs) of war
21war crimes — Acts that violate the international laws, treaties, customs, and practices governing military conflict between belligerent states or parties. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. war crimes …
22Legality of the Iraq War — The legality of the Iraq War has been widely debated since the United States, United Kingdom, Italy and several other countries launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq. US and UK officials have argued that existing UN Security Council resolutions… …
23My Trial as a War Criminal — is a 1949 short story by atomic physicist Leo Szilard.[1][2] Szilard had played a leading role in the Manhattan Project, and in the story he imagines the kind of show trial he might have had if he had been prosecuted in a manner similar to the… …
24War on Terror — This article is about the international military campaign. For the board game, see War on Terror (game). War on Terror …
25List of Ordinances and Acts of the Parliament of England, 1642 to 1660 — This is a list of Ordinances and Acts of the Parliament of England from 1642 to 1660, during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.As King Charles I of England would not assent to Bills from a Parliament at war with him, decrees of Parliament …
26Society and culture of the Han Dynasty — A Western Han jade carved door knocker with designs of Chinese dragons (and two other jade figurines) The Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) was a period of ancient China divided by the Western Han (206 BCE – 9 CE) and Eastern Han (25–220 CE) periods …
27Spanish and Portuguese Jews — are a distinctive sub group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the crypto Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on. These… …
28slaves and slavery — Slaves, known as wardum in the Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, existed in all of the societies of ancient Mesopotamia. However, slavery did not play the kind of major social and commercial role that it did later in classical (Greco Roman)… …
29Kosovo War — Part of the Breakup of Yugoslavia …
30Comparison of United States and British governments — The politics of the United States and the United Kingdom have been closely tied since the 13 American Colonies established their independence from Great Britain in 1776. The United States created a written constitution to protect itself from… …
