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International Law Situations: With Solutions And Notes, 1904 (1905) is a book written by the Naval War College. It is a comprehensive guide to international law that provides readers with a series of hypothetical situations and their corresponding solutions and notes. The book covers a range of topics such as the law of the sea, neutrality, maritime law, and the conduct of war. The hypothetical situations presented in the book are designed to challenge readers and encourage them to think critically about the application of international law in real-world scenarios. The solutions and notes provided by the Naval War College offer a detailed analysis of each situation, drawing on the latest legal precedents and international agreements. The book is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of international law, providing a valuable insight into the complexities and challenges of this field. Published in 1905, the book remains a classic text in the study of international law.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

For centuries, attacks on maritime commerce have been consistent features of war at sea. At the same time, a fundamental raison d'être of navies has been the protection of maritime trade against such attacks. From ancient times, piracy has been an issue at sea, and a long tradition of private men-of-war lasted into the mid-nineteenth century.After 1690, the French navy put into practice a concept of guerre de course as an alterna-tive to fleet battle, or guerre d'escadre, as a means of dealing with the superior power of Britain's Royal Navy. In the 1870s and 1880s a group of naval thinkers in France, labeled the Jeune École, promoted ideas of commerce raiding with high-speed torpedo boats. Other naval theorists-including Alfred Thayer Mahan in the United States, Sir Julian Corbett in Britain, and Raoul Castex in France-concluded from their analyses of his-tory that such commerce warfare was an indecisive method of waging war by relatively weak powers, an approach that was not as effective as one focusing primarily on the victory of one battle fleet over another. During the two world wars of the twentieth century submarine attacks on maritime trade were extremely effective, leading the great American naval thinker J. C. Wylie to define two different types of strategy: a sequential strategy that leads from one action to another, and a cumulative strategy, such as one involving attrition of merchant shipping in commerce warfare.Some commentators have argued that in the modern globalized economy, no state would find any advantage in attacking a global interconnected maritime trade that has benefit for all. Yet, as one prescient observer of this subject noted recently, "unlikely threats and outdated practices rear their ugly heads when the situation favors them" (Douglas C. Peifer, "Maritime Commerce Warfare: The Coercive Response of the Weak?," Naval War College Review 66, no. 2 [Spring 2013], pp. 83-109, quote at p. 84).A consideration of the range of historical case studies in this volume provides an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which old and long-forgotten problems might reemerge to challenge future naval planners and strategists

TThe historic International Law Studies ("Blue Book") series was initiated by the Naval War College in 1901 to publish essays, treatises and articles that contribute to the broader understanding of international law. This, the eightyeighth volume of the "Blue Book" series, is a compilation of scholarly papers and remarks derived from the proceedings of a conference hosted at the Naval War College on June 21-23, 2011 entitled "Non-International Armed Conflict in the 21st Century." The purpose of the June 2011 International Law Conference was to examine the legal issues surrounding non-international armed conflict (NIAC) in the modern era. To this end, renowned international academics and legal advisers, both military and civilian, representing military, diplomatic, non-governmental and academic institutions from the global community, were invited to the War College to analyze a variety of legal topics related to NIAC. Specifically, the panelists undertook an examination of the types of NIACs and the law applicable to each; the legal statuses of actors in NIAC; means and methods of warfare in NIAC; recent and ongoing NIACs; detention in NIAC; and enforcement of international law in NIAC. In addition, the Honorable Harold H. Koh, Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, presented a luncheon address at the Naval Station Newport Officers' Club on the second day of the conference. The distinguished panelists were invited to contribute articles to this volume to further develop their thoughts offered at the conference, and this "Blue Book" is largely comprised of these articles. Readers and researchers will find within this volume a detailed study of the law pertaining to non-international armed conflicts as it is interpreted and applied in the post-September 11 world, and its effect on State actions, particularly military operations. The conference and the "Blue Book" were made possible with generous support from the Naval War College Foundation, the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, and the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict, American Society of International Law. On behalf of the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, I extend our thanks and gratitude to all the participants, contributing authors and editors for their invaluable contributions to this project and to the future understanding of the law applicable in non-international armed conflicts, the predominant form of warfare during the last several decades and the type of conflicts in which military forces are most likely to be engaged in the twenty-first century. JOHN N. CHRISTENSON Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy President, Naval War College