not be attacked unless they are used for purposes other than protecting the
installation.
- Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population. Article 54
of GP I prohibits starvation as a method of warfare. It is prohibited to attack,
destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable for survival of the
civilian population -such as foodstuffs, crops, livestock, water installations,
and irrigation works.
E. Protective Emblems. FM 27- 10, para. 23 8. Objects and personnel displaying
emblems are presumed to be protected under Conventions. GWS, art 38.
- Medical and Religious'Emblems
a. Red Cross.
b. Red Crescent.
c. Lion and Sun.
d. Red Star of David: Not mentioned in the 1949 Geneva Convention, but is
protected as a matter of practice.
- Cultural Property Emblems
a. "A shield, consisting of a royal blue square, one of the angles of which
forms the point of the sheld and of a royal blue triangle above the square,
the space on either side being taken up by a white triangle." 1954
Cultural Property Convention, art. 16 and 17.
b. Hague Convention No. IX Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in
Time of War (art. 5). "[Llarge, stiff, rectangular panels divided
diagonally into two colored triangular portions, the upper portion black,
the lower portion white."
- Works and Installations Containing Dangerous Forces. Three bright orange
circles, of similar size, placed on the same axis, the distance between each
circle being one radius. GP I, annex I, art. 16.
IV. WEAPONS
A. The regulation of use of weapons in conflict is governed by essentially two
major precepts. The first is the law of war principle prohbiting unnecessary
