Underground Warfare

Daphné Richemond-Barak is Assistant Professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, and Senior Researcher and Head of the International Law Desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. She is a renowned and prolific expert on public international law and international humanitarian law specializing in the law of armed conflict. She has written extensively on contemporary issues such as counterinsurgency law, human rights/humanitarian law convergence, non-state actors in armed conflict, private security military contractors, transnational terrorist groups, and intelligent defense systems.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Tunnels in Conflict: From Ancient Uses to Contemporary Threats2. Underground Warfare: From a Tool of War to a Global Security Threat3. Sovereignty over the Underground4. Contending with Tunnels: Law, Strategy, and Methods5. Underground Warfare and the Jus ad Bellum6. Underground Warfare and the Jus in Bello: General Considerations7. Underground Warfare Near, By, and Against Civilians8. Conclusion Index

In the granular attention to operational realities that "Underground Warfare" provides, and in its use of analogies from other methods of warfare, Richemond-Barak's book provides a model for analyses of other military methods that have not so far received detailed assessments under the laws of armed conflict.