SOME HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE MILITARY LAW FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN FOREIGN STATES
The article examines the establishment process and legal formalization of the norms of military law (the law of armed conflicts) in foreign countries. The author covers a significant layer of sources of foreign military law - from the origins of human civilization to the period of modern times. The main sources of foreign military law are considered within the framework of the following periodization: countries of the ancient world: India, China, the Roman state; the states of the Middle Ages: France and Germany; as well as the military law of the states of modern times: the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Japan. Due to the limited scope of the article, the author examines only some historical normative legal sources of foreign countries that acted as world leaders in the field of military law construction and the development