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Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army

Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army

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Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Armed ForcesGeneral LawSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0415677556
ISBN13: 9780415677554
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is an examination of American army legal proceedings that resulted from a series of moments when soldiers in a war zone crossed a line between performing their legitimate functions and committing crimes against civilians, or atrocities.

Using individual judicial proceedings held within war-time Southeast Asia, Louise Barnett analyses how the American military legal system handled crimes against civilians and determines what these cases reveal about the way that war produces atrocity against civilians. Presenting these atrocities and subsequent trials in a way that considers both the personal and the institutional the author considers how and why atrocity happens, the terrain of justification, and the degree to which the army and American society have been willing to take military crimes against civilians seriously.

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