A Report on the Conclusion of the Cambodian Operation Statement of President Nixon, June 30, 1970

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. THE CAMBODIAN INCURSION OF 1970
6. A. The Expanded Zone of Combat
7. From the Vietnam War to an Indochina War 9
8. B. International Law Aspects
9. United States Military Action in Cambodia: Questions of International Law 23
10. The Cambodian Operation and International Law 33
11. Legal Dimensions of the Decision to Intercede in Cambodia 58
12. Comments on the Articles on the Legality of the United States Action in Cambodia 96
13. United States Military Intervention in Cambodia in the Light of International Law 100
14. Self-Defense and Cambodia: A Critical Appraisal 138
15. United States Recognition Policy and Cambodia 148
16. C. Constitutional Aspects
17. The Constitutional Issues–Administration Position 163
18. The Constitutionality of the Cambodian Incursion 175
19. Commentary 187
20. II. WAR CRIMES
21. A. General Considerations
22. The Nuremberg Principles 193
23. The Hostage Case (excerpts) 249
24. The High Command Case (excerpts) 256
25. The Matter of Yamashita (excerpts) 264
26. Targets in War: Legal Considerations 281
27. Son My: War Crimes and Individual Responsibility 327
28. Legal Aspects of the My Lai Incident 346
29. Legal Aspects of the My Lai Incident–A Response to Professor Rubin 359
30. Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who is Responsible for War Crimes? 379
31. Β. Judicial Applications
32. The Nuremberg Trials and Conscientious Objection to War: Justiciability under United States Municipal Law 399
33. War Crimes and Vietnam: The “Nuremberg Defense” and the Military Service Resister 407
34. Conscience and Anarchy: the Prosecution of War Resisters 463
35. Nuremberg Law and U.S. Courts 477
36. III. THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE ON THE VIETNAM WAR
37. A. Matters of Executive Prerogative
38. The President, the People, and the Power to Make War 489
39. The Power of the Executive to Use Military Forces Abroad 506
40. Presidential War-Making: Constitutional Prerogative or Usurpation? 521
41. Committee on Foreign Relations, Comments on the National Commitments Resolution 584
42. B. Matters of Legislative Prerogative
43. Congress and Foreign Policy 595
44. The Appropriations Power as a Tool of Congressional Foreign Policy Making 606
45. C. Matters of Judicial Prerogative
46. Viet-Nam in the Courts of the United States: “Political Questions” 625
47. The Justiciability of Challenges to the Use of Military Forces Abroad 631
48. Judicial Power, the “Political Question Doctrine,” and Foreign Relations 654
49. The Justiciability of Legal Objections to the American Military Effort in Vietnam 699
50. IV. SPECIAL QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
51. Legitimacy and Legal Rights of Revolutionary Movements With Special Reference to the Peoples’ evolutionary Government of South Viet Nam 723
52. V. PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT
53. The Viet Nam Negotiations 741
54. The International Control Commission Experience and the Role of an Improved International Supervisory Body in the Vietnamese Settlement 765
55. The Neutralization of South Vietnam: Pros and Cons 811
56. VI. WORLD ORDER PERSPECTIVES
57. What We Should Learn from Vietnam 827
58. Controlling Local Conflicts 840
59. The Causes of Peace and Conditions of War 847
60. VII. DOCUMENTARY APPENDICES
61. President Nixon’s Address to the Nation on “Military Action in Cambodia,” April 30, 1970 865
62. Ambassador Charles Yost’s Letter of May 5, 1970 to the United Nations Security Council 873
63. A Report on the Conclusion of the Cambodian Operation Statement of President Nixon, June 30, 1970 875
64. The Nuremberg Principles 893
65. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949 895
66. President Nixon’s Address to the Nation on “A New Peace Initiative for All Indochina,” October 7, 1970 904
67. The National Commitments Resolution Senate Resolution 85, 91st Congress, 1st Session, Adopted June 25, 1969 909
68. Amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act (Cooper-Church Amendment) 910
69. Civil War Panel 921
70. Contributors 922
71. Permissions 925
72. Index 929