The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
This book is the first ever full-scale joint-services (army, air force and navy) official UK military manual on the international law of armed conflict. Prepared by the legal sections of the British armed forces in consultation with leading international academics and practitioners this manual pays specific attention to the perspectives and experiences of the armed forces, whilst maintaining the highest scholarly standards.