so can ensure adherence to the laws of war in a way that you can't do in other battlefield situations.
That’s the ideal. In reality, a lot of the time the lawyers make decisions based on what’s reasonably defensible, to the press/in a court/etc. Adherence to the law becomes distorted when, for example, being a male above the age of 12 means means you’re fair game as a ‘military age male’, whether you’re a combatant or not.
That shit reminds me of what the Soviets pulled in Afghanistan, conscripting boys and men into their Afghan support forces or simply executing them all, literally just because they have a penis and were in a conflict area (like they could just up sticks and move somewhere else). I’d hope we would be above that sort of shit.
Definitely the one, good movie.
That’s the ideal. In reality, a lot of the time the lawyers make decisions based on what’s reasonably defensible, to the press/in a court/etc. Adherence to the law becomes distorted when, for example, being a male above the age of 12 means means you’re fair game as a ‘military age male’, whether you’re a combatant or not.
That shit reminds me of what the Soviets pulled in Afghanistan, conscripting boys and men into their Afghan support forces or simply executing them all, literally just because they have a penis and were in a conflict area (like they could just up sticks and move somewhere else). I’d hope we would be above that sort of shit.