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Cybersecurity Curriculum
5.1 Jus ad Bellum
Purpose: To provide an understanding of the international law that governs when it is legitimate to begin war, what counts as war for those purposes, and what counts as neutrality (and breaches of neutrality). The jus ad bellum is governed primarily by the United Nations Charter and customary international law.
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