European War pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets on World War I.

International law topics: documents on neutrality and war, with notes, 1915.

Discussions conducted by George Grafton Wilson.

A sketch of the life of Dr. James McHenry; a paper, read before the Maryland Historical Society, November 13th, 1876,

Largely devoted to the troubles in the cabinet of President Adams, in which McHenry was secretary of war.

Records of the governor and Council of the state of Vermont ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Series of articles on compressor and fan design written by German engineers.

Composed primarily of articles written by Bruno Eckert's group, Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren, Technische Hochschule, Stuttgard. Translated by various groups and individuals both in and out of the Navy Dept. Preliminary translation done by German prisoners of war.

Report of the Board on Fortifications or Other Defenses appointed by the President of the United States under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1885 ...

William C. Endicott, Secretary of War, President of the Board.

Report of the National Coast-Defense Board appointed by the President of the United States by Executive Order, January 31, 1905.

"March 5, 1906-read ; referred to the Committee on Coast Defenses and ordered to be printed."

The story of the "Grafton" portrait of William Shakespeare : with an account of the sack and destruction of the manor house of Grafton Regis by the parliamentary forces on Christmas Eve, 1643 /

"The publication of this work, which it was intended shoud take place in the autumn of 1914, has unavoidably been postponed owing to illness and lamented death of the author and the outbreak of war"--Note dated June 1915 inserted.

Annual report of the director, United States Veterans' Bureau for the fiscal year ended ...

Report year ends June 30.

Message of the President of the United States communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 26, calling for a copy of the report and maps of Captain Marcy of his explorations of the Big Wichita and head waters of the Brazos rivers.

Submitted by: War Department.

Problems of a new world,

Preface.--Collapse of the old order.--The civilian mind.--The tragi-comedy of war-idealism.--The new industrial revolution.--A new world.

Resolutions of the Institute of international law dealing with the law of nations, with an historical introduction and explanatory notes;

Includes Manual of the laws and customs of war on land, adopted at the Oxford meeting of the Institute, 1880 (p. 25-42) and Manual of the laws of naval war, adopted at the Oxford session, 1913 (p. 174-201)

Report of the Director

Mode of access: Internet.

Children and war

Children bear disproportionate consequences of armed conflict. The 21st century continues to see patterns of children enmeshed in international violence between opposing combatant forces, as victims of terrorist warfare, and, perhaps most tragically of all, as victims of civil wars. Innocent children so often are the victims of high-energy wounding from military ordinance. They sustain high-energy tissue damage and massive burns - injuries that are not commonly seen in civilian populations. Children have also been deliberately targeted victims in genocidal civil wars in Africa in the past decade, and hundreds of thousands have been killed and maimed in the context of close-quarter, hand-to-hand assaults of great ferocity. Paediatricians serve as uniformed military surgeons and as civilian doctors in both international and civil wars, and have a significant strategic role to play as advocates for the rights and welfare of children in the context of the evolving 'Laws of War'. One chronic legacy of contemporary warfare is blast injury to children from landmines. Such blasts leave children without feet or lower limbs, with genital injuries, blindness and deafness. This pattern of injury has become one of the post-civil war syndromes encountered by all intensivists and surgeons serving in four of the world's continents. The continued advocacy for the international ban on the manufacture, commerce and military use of antipersonnel landmines is a part of all paediatricians' obligation to promote the ethos of the Laws of War. Post-traumatic stress disorder remains an undertreated legacy of children who have been trapped in the shot and shell of battle as well as those displaced as refugees. An urgent, unfocused and unmet challenge has been the increase in, and plight of, child soldiers themselves. A new class of combatant comprises these children, who also become enmeshed in the triad of anarchic civil war, light-weight weaponry and drug or alcohol addiction. The International Criminal Court has outlawed as a War Crime, the conscription of children under 15 years of age. Nevertheless, there remain more than 300 000 child soldiers active and enmeshed in psychopathic violence as part of both civil and international warfare. The typical profile of a child soldier is of a boy between the ages of 8 and 18 years, bonded into a group of armed peers, almost always an orphan, drug or alcohol addicted, amoral, merciless, illiterate and dangerous. Paediatricians have much to do to protect such war-enmeshed children, irrespective of the accident of their place of birth. Only by such vigorous and maintained advocacy can the world's children be better protected from the scourge of future wars.

Ethics and intervention: The 'humanitarian exception' and the problem of abuse in the case of Iraq

This article investigates the ethics of intervention and explores the decision to invade Iraq. It begins by arguing that while positive international law provides an important framework for understanding and debating the legitimacy of war, it does not cover the full spectrum of moral reasoning on issues of war and peace. To that end, after briefly discussing the two primary legal justifications for war (implied UN authorization and pre-emptive self-defence), and finding them wanting, it asks whether there is a moral 'humanitarian exceptions to this rule grounded in the 'just war' tradition. The article argues that two aspects of the broad tradition could be used to make a humanitarian case for war: the 'holy war' tradition and classical just war thinking based on natural law. The former it finds problematic, while the latter it argues provides a moral space to justify the use of force to halt gross breaches of natural law. Although such an approach may provide a moral justification for war, it also opens the door to abuse. It was this very problem that legal positivism from Vattel onwards was designed to address. As a result, the article argues that natural law and legal positivist arguments should be understood as complementary sets of ideas whose sometimes competing claims must be balanced in relation to particular cases. Therefore, although natural law may open a space for justifying the invasion of Iraq on humanitarian terms, legal positivism strictly limits that right. Ignoring this latter fact, as happened in the Iraq case, opens the door to abuse.