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Current military campaigns are not waged solely on the physical battlefield, but in multiple other arenas. One such arena is lawfare: legal activity that supports, undermines, or substitutes for other types of warfare. In today’s law-rich environment, with an abundance of legal rules and legal fora, strategists must evaluate the full scope of possible legal argumentation. Lawfare can substitute for warfare where it provides a means to compel specified behavior with fewer costs than kinetic warfare, or even in cases where kinetic warfare would be ineffective. As a result, lawfare can be strategically integrated into military command structures to bring about desired outcomes.
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Joel P. Trachtman,
Integrating Lawfare and Warfare,
39
B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev.
267
(2016),
https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol39/iss2/3