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- Title The Lost Art of Declaring War
- Author Brien Hallett
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-09
- ISBN 9780252067266 / 0252067266
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 6.02 x 0.61 in (22.89 x 15.29 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects War and emergency powers - United States, Executive power - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-8926
- Dewey Decimal Code 342.730
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Paperback / softback. New. Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat. Brien Hallett denies both assumptions and claims that war is policy, not violence. The Lost Art of Declaring War analyzes the crucial differences between combat and war and convincingly argues that the power to "declare" war is in actuality the power to compose a text, draft a document, write a denunciation. Once written, the declaration then serves three functions: to articulate the political purposes of the war, to guide and direct military operations, and to establish the boundary between justified combat and unjustified devastation. Hallett sounds a clarion call urging the people and their representatives to take up the challenge and write fully reasoned declarations of war. Then, and only then, can a…
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