IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/gai/wpaper/0114.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

How to scrap modern military Justice to restore Army's deterrence capacity

Author

Listed:
  • Konstantin Yanovskiy

    (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy)

  • Ilia Zatcovetsky

    (Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology)

Abstract

Modern military Justice punishes officers and soldiers of democratic nations' armies for their military success. "Excessive use of force" and similar artificial judicial constructions undermine incentives of army officers, making the military machine virtually inoperative. Artificially abridged Army capability prevents any opportunities to win the fight against terror, to defend democratic nations and to break trap of violent dictatorship or warlords brutality for peoples of rogue / failed states. Shurat a Din conference "To the new Law of War" addressed the issues such as human shields, proportionality, fighting in civilian areas, defining war crimes in attempt to propose solution of the problem, to restore Democratic nations' ability to defend themselves against Islamic terrorism. Our comments are based on our extensive research program on the issues of Governments' failures to provide sustainable defense for the people. The comments focused on the most obvious practical conclusions and recommendations based on the conference materials. The comments also raise some additional problems to be solved in order to restore our Armies' deterrence capacities.

Suggested Citation

  • Konstantin Yanovskiy & Ilia Zatcovetsky, 2015. "How to scrap modern military Justice to restore Army's deterrence capacity," Working Papers 0114, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, revised 2015.
    • Handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/wpaper/0114Yanovskiy.pdf
    File Function: Revised version, 2015
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Konstantin Yanovskiy & Ilia Zatcovetsky & Vadim Rotenberg, 2014. "The First Intifada, the Oslo Accords, and the Escalation of Terror: Causalities Revisited," Working Papers 0108, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, revised 2015.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Keywords

      disproportional use of force; military justice; ROE; lives values’ priority; officer’s incentives;
      All these keywords.

      JEL classification:

      • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
      • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gai:wpaper:0114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Aleksei Astakhov (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gaidaru.html .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.