Defining legal boundaries for UK military operations in the 21st century

Working paper

Over the last quarter-century or more, the evolving legal regulation of military conduct during conflict has seen normative conventions collide, leaving military practitioners uncertain about the legality of their rules of engagement and significantly exposed to legal risk as they prosecute their assigned missions. The essence is that high-intensity combat operations with a character of war are now being conducted in situations other than state-on-state warfare and in environments not general...

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Authors: Parr, R

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: University of Oxford
• Place of publication: Oxford, UK
• Publication date: 2026-03-10
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-zbebbe91k
• Language: English
• Keywords: Geneva Conventions; national security; IHRL; human rights; IHL