Legal Scholar and Author

Michel Paradis

1 article 2017

Michel Paradis is a legal scholar and author who focuses on military law, national security, and the laws of war. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2017, writing about the strategic and symbolic dimensions of military action.

Bombing for Show

April 17, 2017 · Syria, Blog, World War II

The April 6 missile strike on the Shayrat Airbase in Homs, Syria, has provoked a week of debate on everything from its legality to its political significance. The only thing about which everyone agrees is that as a tactical matter, it did very little. The 59 Tomahawk missiles were dropped on the…