Law of War Handbook 2005
not be attacked unless they are used for purposes other than protecting the installation. Objects Indispensable to the Survival ...
suffering. The second is treaty law dealing with specific weapons or weapons systems. B. Legal Review. Before discussing these a ...
Small Arms Projectiles. Must not be exploding or expanding projectiles. The Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868 prohibits exp ...
a. Legal unless used in an illegal manner (on a protected target or in a manner calculated to cause unnecessary suffering). b. ...
(2)Requires that all remotely delivered APL be equipped with self- destruct devices and backup self-deactivation features (in ot ...
(3)Persistent anti-vehicle mines car^ only be employed outside the Republic of Korea when authorized by the President until the ...
fi) animals or their carcasses a. The above list is a useful "laundry list" for the operational law attorney to use when analyz ...
c. Protocol I11 of the 1980 C~nventional Weapons Convention prohibits use of air-delivered incendiary weapons on military objec ...
position is that the treaty does not prohibit the use of RCA in war. (Other nations disagree with interpretation.) See further d ...
hot Control Agents (RCA). Use of riot control agents by U.S. troops is governed by four key documents. In order to determine wh ...
in which "combatants" may be involved will most likely not be approved. b. Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW). During M ...
(5)Thus, during peacekeepiag missions (such as Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti) it appears U.S. policy will maintain that we a ...
(1)World War I -Germany: Germany often fitted her armed raiders with dummy funnels and deck cargoes and false bulwarks. The Germ ...
were passed between fictitious headquarters. In addition, smoke generators and loudspeakers playing tape-recorded tank and truck ...
(3)Equipment. Must remove all enemy insignia in order to fight with the equipment. Captured supplies: may seize and use if state ...
considers customary internatio~al law.) Article 37(1) does not prohibit perfidy -; only certain perfidious acts that result in k ...
Higginbotham, Case Studies in the Law of Land Wa+e 11:The Campaign in the Fa1klands;Mil. Rev., Oct. 1984, at 49. (2)Desert Storm ...
(2)It is not perfidy (a violation of Art 37) to (mis)use the emblem of the UN to try to gain protected status if the UN has memb ...
Reaching fnendly lines immunizes spy for past espionage activities. Therefore, upon later capture as a lawful combatant, past s ...
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