Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare

... technology, represents a separate, full-fledged segment of contemporary military confrontation—is now of critical importance. In the absence of conventions regulating interaction in the media field, states put no bridle on the means used in information wars. Sixth, waging modern warfare in exact accordance with the letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions is extremely difficult and practically impossible in some situations. The point is that the conventions are designed for a hypothetical “ideal war” which has a clearly ...