ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book identifies Economic targets, including war-sustaining assets and resources, political leadership infrastructure and media facilities. Media facilities, especially TV and radio broadcasting stations, have controversially been attacked during armed conflicts. Their classification as military objectives will depend on the activity they facilitate. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was using the argument that the facilities were associated with the commission of international crimes. The potential legal implications of military doctrine on other law of armed conflict (LOAC) provisions regulating the means and methods of fighting could also usefully be explored more widely. The problem connected to the sharing of information arises in the context of coalition warfare, and may affect whether particular targets can be determined as military objectives. Law requires that States attack only objects that are military objectives. When a State attacks certain objects, it presumably thinks they are lawful targets.
