The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations: Manual NWP 1-14M/MCTP 11-10B/COMDTPUB P5800.7A

The United States will not, however, acquiesce in unilateral acts of other States designed to restrict the rights and freedoms of the international community in navigation and overflight and other related high seas uses. –President Reagan’s Oceans Policy Statement on the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1983)

In August 2017, The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations–Manual Manual NWP 1-14M/MCTP 11-10B/COMDTPUB P5800.7A, was released by the US Navy, the US Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard. It sets out those fundamental principles of international and domestic law that govern US naval operations at sea.

Some other related publications by Cosimo Reports are: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field–The Lieber Code (1863), The Law and Usages of War at Sea–A Naval War Code (1900), Small Wars Manual (1940) Rules of Land Warfare (1940), The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2016),

The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Land Warfare (2019), and others.