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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8" title="قانون الحرب – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="قانون الحرب" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleis_de_la_guerra" title="Lleis de la guerra – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Lleis de la guerra" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dret_de_guerra" title="Dret de guerra – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dret de guerra" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1le%C4%8Dn%C3%A9_pr%C3%A1vo" title="Válečné právo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Válečné právo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krigens_regler" title="Krigens regler – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Krigens regler" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsv%C3%B6lkerrecht" title="Kriegsvölkerrecht – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kriegsvölkerrecht" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85" title="Δίκαιο του πολέμου – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Δίκαιο του πολέμου" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyes_de_la_guerra" title="Leyes de la guerra – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Leyes de la guerra" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milita_juro" title="Milita juro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Milita juro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrako_lege" title="Gerrako lege – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gerrako lege" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF" title="قانون جنگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قانون جنگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_la_guerre" title="Droit de la guerre – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Droit de la guerre" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leis_da_guerra" title="Leis da guerra – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Leis da guerra" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%84%EC%8B%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%A0%9C%EB%B2%95" title="전시국제법 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="전시국제법" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%B4%D5%AB_%D6%85%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%84%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80_%D6%87_%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Պատերազմի օրենքներ և սովորույթներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Պատերազմի օրենքներ և սովորույթներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF" title="युद्ध विधि – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="युद्ध विधि" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me%C4%91unarodno_ratno_pravo" title="Međunarodno ratno pravo – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Međunarodno ratno pravo" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukum_perang" title="Hukum perang – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Hukum perang" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diritto_bellico" title="Diritto bellico – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Diritto bellico" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%94" title="הלכות מלחמה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הלכות מלחמה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ომის სამართალი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ომის სამართალი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadijog" title="Hadijog – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Hadijog" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oorlogsrecht" title="Oorlogsrecht – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Oorlogsrecht" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%A6%E6%99%82%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E6%B3%95" title="戦時国際法 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="戦時国際法" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krigens_regler" title="Krigens regler – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Krigens regler" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8is_de_la_gu%C3%A8rra" title="Lèis de la guèrra – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Lèis de la guèrra" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direito_de_guerra" title="Direito de guerra – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Direito de guerra" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B" title="Законы войны – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" 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engineer">Engineers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_intelligence" title="Military intelligence">Intel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">Recon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medical_corps" title="Medical corps">Medical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_police" title="Military police">Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_diving" title="Military diving">Diving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_communications" title="Military communications">Comms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_pilot" title="Aircraft pilot">Pilot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_commissar" title="Political commissar">Commissar</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i>Land units:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">Infantry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mechanized_infantry" title="Mechanized infantry">Mechanized</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armoured_fighting_vehicle" title="Armoured fighting vehicle">Armor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cavalry" title="Cavalry">Cavalry</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">Artillery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">Special forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Signal_corps" title="Signal corps">Signal corps</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i>Naval units:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frogman" title="Frogman">Frogman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warship" title="Warship">Warships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">Submarines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">Aircraft carriers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landing_craft" title="Landing craft">Landing craft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_ship" title="Auxiliary ship">Auxiliary ships</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i>Air units:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">Fighters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">Bombers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_control" title="Airborne early warning and control">Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Close_air_support" title="Close air support">Close air support</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electronic-warfare_aircraft" title="Electronic-warfare aircraft">Electronic-warfare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance_aircraft" title="Reconnaissance aircraft">Reconnaissance</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i>Combat systems:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-control_system" title="Fire-control system">Fire-control system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-control_radar" title="Fire-control radar">Fire-control radar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_(military)" title="Director (military)">Director (military)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combat_information_center" title="Combat information center">Combat information center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonar" title="Sonar">Sonar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radar" title="Radar">Radar</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i>Historical:</i></li> <li><a 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mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li>Aerospace <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aerial_warfare" title="Aerial warfare">Aerial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">Airborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_warfare" title="Space warfare">Space</a></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Land_warfare" title="Land warfare">Land</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cold-weather_warfare" title="Cold-weather warfare">Cold-region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desert_warfare" title="Desert warfare">Desert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortification" title="Fortification">Fortification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jungle_warfare" title="Jungle warfare">Jungle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_warfare" title="Mountain warfare">Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_warfare" title="Urban warfare">Urban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subterranean_warfare" title="Subterranean warfare">Subterranean</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tunnel_warfare" title="Tunnel warfare">Tunnel</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naval_warfare" title="Naval warfare">Sea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphibious_warfare" title="Amphibious warfare">Amphibious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue-water_navy" title="Blue-water navy">Blue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown-water_navy" title="Brown-water navy">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green-water_navy" title="Green-water navy">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surface_warfare" title="Surface warfare">Surface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underwater_warfare" title="Underwater warfare">Underwater</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seabed_warfare" title="Seabed warfare">Seabed</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyberwarfare" title="Cyberwarfare">Cyber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Information_warfare" title="Information warfare">Information</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div 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title="Air combat manoeuvring">Aerial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airlift" title="Airlift">Airlift</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_assault" title="Air assault">Air assault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airbridge_(logistics)" title="Airbridge (logistics)">Airbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airdrop" title="Airdrop">Airdrop</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare" title="Anti-aircraft warfare">Anti-aircraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_warfare" title="Anti-submarine warfare">Anti-sub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_warfare" title="Anti-tank warfare">Anti-tank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle" title="Battle">Battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavalry_tactics" title="Cavalry tactics">Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charge_(warfare)" title="Charge (warfare)">Charge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counterattack" title="Counterattack">Counterattack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counterinsurgency" title="Counterinsurgency">Counterinsurgency</a></li> 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(military)">Swarm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screening_(tactical)" title="Screening (tactical)">Screen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tactical_objective" title="Tactical objective">Tactical objective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturation_attack" title="Saturation attack">Target saturation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trench_warfare" title="Trench warfare">Trench</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_(military)" title="Withdrawal (military)">Withdrawal</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Operational_level_of_war" title="Operational level of war">Operational</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_operation" title="Military operation">Military operation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_operations" title="Special operations">Special</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operations_research" title="Operations research">Operations research</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blitzkrieg" title="Blitzkrieg">Blitzkrieg</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Expeditionary_warfare" title="Expeditionary warfare">Expeditionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_operation" title="Deep operation">Deep operation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maneuver_warfare" title="Maneuver warfare">Maneuver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operational_manoeuvre_group" title="Operational manoeuvre group">Operational manoeuvre group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_(military)" title="Raid (military)">Raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covert_operation" title="Covert operation">Covert</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_strategy" title="Military strategy">Strategy</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_strategies_and_concepts" title="List of military strategies and concepts">List of military strategies and concepts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_campaign" title="Military campaign">Military campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-access/area_denial" title="Anti-access/area denial">Anti-access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attrition_warfare" title="Attrition warfare">Attrition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commerce_raiding" title="Commerce raiding">Commerce raiding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-offensive">Counter-offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culminating_point" title="Culminating point">Culminating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defence_in_depth" title="Defence in depth">Defence in depth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabian_strategy" title="Fabian strategy">Fabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy" title="Empty Fort Strategy">Empty fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosaic_Warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Mosaic Warfare">Mosaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_deception" title="Military deception">Deception</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_defence" title="Strategic defence">Defensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_depth" title="Strategic depth">Depth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_goal_(military)" title="Strategic goal (military)">Goal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_strategy" title="Nuclear strategy">Nuclear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_strategy" title="Naval strategy">Naval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offensive_(military)" title="Offensive (military)">Offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scorched_earth" title="Scorched earth">Scorched earth</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Grand_strategy" title="Grand strategy">Grand strategy</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare" title="Asymmetric warfare">Asymmetric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade" title="Blockade">Blockade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broken-backed_war_theory" title="Broken-backed war theory">Broken-backed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">Class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_war_(general_term)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold war (general term)">Cold war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_war" title="Colonial war">Colonial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest" title="Conquest">Conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">Containment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divide_and_rule" title="Divide and rule">Divide and conquer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_warfare" title="Economic warfare">Economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endemic_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Endemic warfare">Endemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fleet_in_being" title="Fleet in being">Fleet in being</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irregular_warfare" title="Irregular warfare">Irregular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wars_of_national_liberation" title="Wars of national liberation">Liberation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limited_war" title="Limited war">Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Network-centric_warfare" title="Network-centric warfare">Network-centric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_generation_warfare" title="New generation warfare">New generation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perpetual_war" title="Perpetual war">Perpetual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_warfare" title="Political warfare">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princely_rebellion" title="Princely rebellion">Princely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proxy_war" title="Proxy war">Proxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_war" title="Religious war">Religious</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resource_war" title="Resource war">Resource</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_studies" title="Strategic studies">Strategic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_succession" title="War of succession">Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_technology" title="Military technology">Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theater_(warfare)" title="Theater (warfare)">Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_war" title="Total war">Total war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_war" title="World war">World war</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_administration" title="Military administration">Administrative</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content 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responsibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Command_hierarchy" title="Command hierarchy">Chain of command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Command_and_control" title="Command and control">Command and control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_doctrine" title="Military doctrine">Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principles_of_war" title="Principles of war">Principles of war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_force" title="Economy of force">Economy of force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_medicine" title="Military medicine">Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_engineering" title="Military engineering">Engineers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_intelligence" title="Military intelligence">Intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_rank" title="Military rank">Ranks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_technology" title="Military technology">Technology and equipment</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_personnel" title="Military personnel">Personnel</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_recruitment" title="Military recruitment">Recruitment</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Counter-recruitment" title="Counter-recruitment">counter</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">Conscription</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobilization" title="Mobilization">Mobilization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recruit_training" class="mw-redirect" title="Recruit training">Training</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_specialism" title="Military specialism">Specialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morale" title="Morale">Morale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_the_military" title="Women in the military">Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children_in_the_military" title="Children in the military">Children</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transgender_people_and_military_service" title="Transgender people and military service">Transgender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_harassment_in_the_military" title="Sexual harassment in the military">Harassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conscientious_objector" title="Conscientious objector">Conscientious objector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_volunteer" title="Military volunteer">Volunteer</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_volunteers" title="List of foreign volunteers">foreign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary">Mercenary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soldier" title="Soldier">Soldier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Warrior" title="Warrior">Warrior</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" 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href="/wiki/Forward_operating_base" title="Forward operating base">FOB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outpost_(military)" title="Outpost (military)">Outpost</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_science" title="Military science">Science</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Power_projection" title="Power projection">Power projection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loss-of-strength_gradient" title="Loss-of-strength gradient">Loss-of-strength gradient</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws" title="Lanchester's laws">Lanchester's laws</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Force_multiplication" title="Force multiplication">Force multiplication</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Law</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_occupation" title="Military occupation">Occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armistice" title="Armistice">Armistice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceasefire" title="Ceasefire">Ceasefire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">Conscription</a> / <a href="/wiki/Military_volunteer" title="Military volunteer">Volunteer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Court-martial" title="Court-martial">Court-martial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desertion" title="Desertion">Desertion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Protocol" title="Geneva Protocol">Geneva Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_military_jurisprudence" title="Islamic military jurisprudence">Islamic rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_justice" title="Military justice">Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combatant" title="Combatant">Lawful</a> / <a href="/wiki/Unlawful_combatant" title="Unlawful combatant">Unlawful combatant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letter_of_marque" title="Letter of marque">Letter of marque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perfidy" title="Perfidy">Perfidy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Private_military_company" title="Private military company">Private military</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_volunteers" title="List of foreign volunteers">Foreign expatriate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary">Mercenary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privateer" title="Privateer">Privateer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_laws_on_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish laws on war">Jewish laws on war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_of_conquest" title="Right of conquest">Right of conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rules_of_engagement" title="Rules of engagement">Rules of engagement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">Martial law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime">War crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penal_military_unit" title="Penal military unit">Penal military unit</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_theory" title="Military theory">Theory</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_supremacy" title="Air supremacy">Air supremacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appeasement" title="Appeasement">Appeasement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Command_of_the_sea" title="Command of the sea">Command of the sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deterrence_theory" title="Deterrence theory">Deterrence theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance" title="Full-spectrum dominance">Full-spectrum dominance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overmatch" title="Overmatch">Overmatch</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare" title="Unrestricted Warfare">Unrestricted Warfare</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Just_war_theory" title="Just war theory">Just war theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principles_of_war" title="Principles of war">Principles of war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_war" title="Philosophy of war">Philosophy of war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_dilemma" title="Security dilemma">Security dilemma</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tripwire_force" title="Tripwire force">Tripwire force</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Professional_wargaming" title="Professional wargaming">Wargaming</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_simulation" title="Military simulation">Simulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_exercise" title="Military exercise">Exercises</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Military_operations_other_than_war" title="Military operations other than war">Non-warfare</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arms_control" title="Arms control">Arms control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-insurgency" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-insurgency">Counter-insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deterrence_theory" title="Deterrence theory">deterrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disaster_response" title="Disaster response">Disaster response</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grey-zone_(international_relations)" title="Grey-zone (international relations)">Grey-zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy" title="Gunboat diplomacy">Gunboat diplomacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humanitarian_aid" title="Humanitarian aid">Humanitarian aid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">Law enforcement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low-intensity_conflict" title="Low-intensity conflict">Low-intensity conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_engineering" title="Military engineering">Military engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multilateralism" title="Multilateralism">Multilateralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping" title="Peacekeeping">Peacekeeping</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peacebuilding" title="Peacebuilding">Peacebuilding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_through_strength" title="Peace through strength">Peace through strength</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Show_of_force" title="Show of force">Show of force</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div 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title="War song">War song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_uniform" title="Military uniform">Uniform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wargame" title="Wargame">Wargame</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)">Related</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_war" title="Women in war">Women in war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_resister" title="War resister">War resister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_studies" title="War studies">War studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horses_in_warfare" title="Horses in warfare">Horses in warfare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence" title="Wartime sexual violence">Wartime sexual violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_column" title="Fifth column">Fifth column</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Category:Military_lists" title="Category:Military lists">Lists</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_battles" title="Lists of battles">Battles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_occupations" title="List of military occupations">Military occupations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_established_military_terms" title="List of established military terms">Military terms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_operations" title="List of military operations">Operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sieges" title="List of sieges">Sieges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_war_crimes" title="List of war crimes">War crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_war#Wars" title="Outline of war">Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_weapons" title="Lists of weapons">Weapons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_writers" title="List of military writers">Writers</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:War" title="Template:War"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:War" title="Template talk:War"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:War" title="Special:EditPage/Template:War"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>law of war</b> is a component of <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a> that regulates the conditions for initiating <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Jus_ad_bellum" title="Jus ad bellum">jus ad bellum</a></i>) and the conduct of hostilities (<i>jus in bello</i>). Laws of war define sovereignty and nationhood, states and territories, occupation, and other critical terms of law. </p><p>Among other issues, modern laws of war address the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war">declarations of war</a>, acceptance of <a href="/wiki/Surrender_(military)" title="Surrender (military)">surrender</a> and the treatment of <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">prisoners of war</a>, <a href="/wiki/Military_necessity" title="Military necessity">military necessity</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Distinction_(law)" title="Distinction (law)"><i>distinction</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Proportionality_(law)" title="Proportionality (law)"><i>proportionality</i></a>; and the prohibition of certain <a href="/wiki/Weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Weapons">weapons</a> that may cause unnecessary suffering.<sup id="cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_is_IHL?-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>law of war</i> is considered distinct from other bodies of law—such as the <a href="/wiki/Domestic_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic law">domestic law</a> of a particular belligerent to a conflict—which may provide additional legal limits to the conduct or <a href="/wiki/Just_war_theory" title="Just war theory">justification of war.</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_sources_and_history">Early sources and history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early sources and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The first traces of a law of war come from the Babylonians. It is the <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi" title="Code of Hammurabi">Code of Hammurabi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> king of Babylon, which in 1750 B.C., explains its laws imposing a code of conduct in the event of war: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I prescribe these laws so that the strong do not oppress the weak.</p></blockquote><p> In ancient India, the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a> and the texts of Manou's law urged mercy on unarmed or wounded enemies. The <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Qur%27an" class="mw-redirect" title="Qur'an">Qur'an</a> also contain rules of respect for the adversary. It is always a matter of establishing rules that protect civilians and the defeated. </p><p>Attempts to define and regulate the conduct of individuals, nations, and other agents in war and to mitigate the worst effects of war have a long history. The earliest known instances are found in the <a href="/wiki/Mahabharata" title="Mahabharata">Mahabharata</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> (<a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>). In the Indian subcontinent, the Mahabharata describes a discussion between ruling brothers concerning what constitutes acceptable behavior on a battlefield, an early example of the rule of proportionality:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>One should not attack chariots with cavalry; chariot warriors should attack chariots. One should not assail someone in distress, neither to scare him nor to defeat him ... War should be waged for the sake of conquest; one should not be enraged toward an enemy who is not trying to kill him.</p></blockquote> <p>An example from the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Deuteronomy" title="Book of Deuteronomy">Book of Deuteronomy</a> 20:19–20 limits the amount of environmental damage, allowing only the cutting down of non-fruitful trees for use in the siege operation, while fruitful trees should be preserved for use as a food source.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Similarly, Deuteronomy 21:10–14 requires that female captives who were forced to marry the victors of a war, then not desired anymore, be let go wherever they want, and requires them not to be treated as slaves nor be sold for money.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the early 7th century, the first <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Muslim</a> <a href="/wiki/Caliph" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliph">caliph</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abu_Bakr" title="Abu Bakr">Abu Bakr</a>, whilst instructing his <a href="/wiki/Rashidun_army" title="Rashidun army">Muslim army</a>, laid down rules against the mutilation of corpses, killing children, females and the elderly. He also laid down rules against environmental harm to trees and slaying of the enemy's animals: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Stop, O people, that I may give you ten rules for your guidance in the battlefield. Do not commit treachery or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Zuhur_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zuhur-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the history of the early Christian church, many Christian writers considered that Christians could not be soldiers or fight wars. <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a> contradicted this and wrote about '<a href="/wiki/Just_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Just war">just war</a>' doctrine, in which he explained the circumstances when war could or could not be morally <a href="/wiki/Just_war_theory" title="Just war theory">justified.</a> </p><p>In 697, <a href="/wiki/Adomnan_of_Iona" class="mw-redirect" title="Adomnan of Iona">Adomnan of Iona</a> gathered Kings and church leaders from around Ireland and Scotland to <a href="/wiki/Birr,_County_Offaly" title="Birr, County Offaly">Birr</a>, where he gave them the '<a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1in_Adomn%C3%A1in" title="Cáin Adomnáin">Law of the Innocents</a>', which banned killing women and children in war, and the destruction of churches.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Apart from <a href="/wiki/Chivalry" title="Chivalry">chivalry</a> in <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval Europe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> also began promulgating teachings on <a href="/wiki/Just_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Just war">just war</a>, reflected to some extent in movements such as the <a href="/wiki/Peace_and_Truce_of_God" title="Peace and Truce of God">Peace and Truce of God</a>. The impulse to restrict the extent of warfare, and especially protect the lives and property of <a href="/wiki/Non-combatant" title="Non-combatant">non-combatants</a> continued with <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Grotius" title="Hugo Grotius">Hugo Grotius</a> and his attempts to write laws of war. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_sources">Modern sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modern sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Sources_of_international_law" title="Sources of international law">Sources of international law</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg/220px-Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg/330px-Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg/440px-Signing_of_the_first_geneva_convention.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1070" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption>The signing of the <a href="/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention" title="First Geneva Convention">First Geneva Convention</a> by some of the major European powers in 1864.</figcaption></figure> <p>The modern law of war is made up from three principal sources:<sup id="cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_is_IHL?-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>Lawmaking <a href="/wiki/Treaty" title="Treaty">treaties</a></i> (or <i>conventions</i>)—see <a href="#International_treaties_on_the_laws_of_war">§ International treaties on the laws of war</a> below.</li> <li><i>Custom</i>. Not all the law of war derives from or has been incorporated in such treaties, which can refer to the continuing importance of customary law as articulated by the <a href="/wiki/Martens_Clause" title="Martens Clause">Martens Clause</a>. Such <a href="/wiki/Customary_international_law" title="Customary international law">customary international law</a> is established by the general practice of nations together with their <a href="/wiki/Opinio_juris_sive_necessitatis" title="Opinio juris sive necessitatis">acceptance that such practice is required by law</a>.</li> <li><i>General Principles</i>. "Certain fundamental principles provide basic guidance. For instance, the principles of distinction, proportionality, and necessity, all of which are part of customary international law, always apply to the use of armed force."<sup id="cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_is_IHL?-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Positive_law" title="Positive law">Positive</a> <a href="/wiki/International_humanitarian_law" title="International humanitarian law">international humanitarian law</a> consists of <a href="/wiki/Treaty" title="Treaty">treaties</a> (international agreements) that directly affect the laws of war by binding consenting nations and achieving widespread consent. </p><p>The opposite of positive laws of war is customary laws of war,<sup id="cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What_is_IHL?-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> many of which were explored at the <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_War_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuremberg War Trials">Nuremberg War Trials</a>. These laws define both the <i>permissive</i> rights of states as well as <i>prohibitions</i> on their conduct when dealing with <a href="/wiki/Irregular_military" title="Irregular military">irregular forces</a> and non-signatories. </p><p>The Treaty of Armistice and Regularization of War signed on November 25 and 26, 1820 between the president of the <a href="/wiki/Gran_Colombia" title="Gran Colombia">Republic of Colombia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar" title="Simón Bolívar">Simón Bolívar</a> and the Chief of the Military Forces of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Spain_(1810%E2%80%9373)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Spain (1810–73)">Spanish Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Morillo" title="Pablo Morillo">Pablo Morillo</a>, is the precursor of the International Humanitarian Law.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo" title="Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo">Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo</a>, signed and ratified by the United States and Mexico in 1848, articulates rules for any future wars, including protection of civilians and treatment of prisoners of war.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Lieber_Code" title="Lieber Code">Lieber Code</a>, promulgated by the Union during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, was critical in the development of the laws of land warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historian Geoffrey Best called the period from 1856 to 1909 the law of war's "epoch of highest repute."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The defining aspect of this period was the establishment, by states, of a positive legal or legislative foundation (i.e., written) superseding a regime based primarily on religion, chivalry, and customs.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is during this "modern" era that the international conference became the forum for debate and agreement between states and the "multilateral treaty" served as the positive mechanism for codification. </p><p>The Nuremberg War Trial judgment on "The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity"<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> held, under the guidelines <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuremberg Principles">Nuremberg Principles</a>, that treaties like the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Convention_of_1907" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Convention of 1907">Hague Convention of 1907</a>, having been widely accepted by "all civilised nations" for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the specific treaty or not. </p><p>Interpretations of international humanitarian law change over time and this also affects the laws of war. For example, <a href="/wiki/Carla_Del_Ponte" title="Carla Del Ponte">Carla Del Ponte</a>, the chief prosecutor for the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia" title="International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia">International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia</a> pointed out in 2001 that although there is no specific treaty ban on the use of <a href="/wiki/Depleted_uranium" title="Depleted uranium">depleted uranium</a> projectiles, there is a developing scientific debate and concern expressed regarding the effect of the use of such projectiles and it is possible that, in future, there may be a consensus view in international legal circles that use of such projectiles violates general principles of the law applicable to use of weapons in armed conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is because in the future it may be the consensus view that depleted uranium projectiles breach one or more of the following treaties: <a href="/wiki/The_Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="The Universal Declaration of Human Rights">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations" title="Charter of the United Nations">Charter of the United Nations</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide">Genocide Convention</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Torture" title="United Nations Convention Against Torture">United Nations Convention Against Torture</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a> including <a href="/wiki/Protocol_I" title="Protocol I">Protocol I</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_Conventional_Weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on Conventional Weapons">Convention on Conventional Weapons</a> of 1980, the <a href="/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention" title="Chemical Weapons Convention">Chemical Weapons Convention</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Physical_Protection_of_Nuclear_Material" title="Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material">Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Purposes_of_the_laws">Purposes of the laws</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Purposes of the laws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has often been commented that creating laws for something as inherently lawless as war seems like a lesson in absurdity. But based on the adherence to what amounted to <a href="/wiki/Customary_international_humanitarian_law" title="Customary international humanitarian law">customary international humanitarian law</a> by warring parties through the ages, it was believed by many, especially after the eighteenth century, that codifying laws of war would be beneficial.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of the central principles underlying laws of war are:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="reliable sources needed for the whole section (April 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li>Wars should be limited to achieving the political goals that started the war (e.g., territorial control) and should not include unnecessary destruction.</li> <li>Wars should be brought to an end as quickly as possible.</li> <li>People and property that do not contribute to the war effort should be protected against unnecessary destruction and hardship.</li></ul> <p>To this end, laws of war are intended to mitigate the hardships of war by: </p> <ul><li>Protecting both <a href="/wiki/Combatant" title="Combatant">combatants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protected_persons" title="Protected persons">protected</a> <a href="/wiki/Non-combatant" title="Non-combatant">non-combatants</a> from unnecessary suffering.</li> <li>Safeguarding certain fundamental <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> of protected persons who fall into the hands of the enemy, particularly <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>, the wounded and sick, children, and protected <a href="/wiki/Civilians" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilians">civilians</a>.</li> <li>Facilitating the restoration of <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a>.</li></ul> <p>The idea that there is a right to war concerns, on the one hand, the jus ad bellum, the right to make war or to enter war, assuming a motive such as to defend oneself from a threat or danger, presupposes a declaration of war that warns the adversary: war is a loyal act, and on the other hand, jus in bello, the law of war, the way of making war, which involves behaving as soldiers invested with a mission for which all violence is not allowed. In any case, the very idea of a right to war is based on an idea of war that can be defined as an armed conflict, limited in space, limited in time, and by its objectives. War begins with a declaration (of war), ends with a treaty (of peace) or surrender agreement, an act of sharing, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Principles_of_the_laws_of_war">Principles of the laws of war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Principles of the laws of war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_(1904).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg/220px-A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg/330px-A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg/440px-A_FEW_POINTS_OF_INTERNATIONAL_LAW_GOVERNING_MODERN_WARFARE_%281904%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="2076" /></a><figcaption>A 1904 article outlining the basic principles of the law of war, as published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tacoma_Times" title="The Tacoma Times">the Tacoma Times</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Military_necessity" title="Military necessity">Military necessity</a>,</i> along with <i><a href="/wiki/Distinction_(law)" title="Distinction (law)">distinction</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Proportionality_(international_humanitarian_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Proportionality (international humanitarian law)">proportionality</a>,</i> <i><a href="/wiki/Humanity_(virtue)" title="Humanity (virtue)">humanity</a></i> (sometimes called unnecessary suffering), and <i><a href="/wiki/Honor" class="mw-redirect" title="Honor">honor</a> </i>(sometimes called chivalry) are the five most commonly cited principles of <a href="/wiki/International_humanitarian_law" title="International humanitarian law">international humanitarian law</a> governing the legal <a href="/wiki/Use_of_force_in_international_law" title="Use of force in international law">use of force</a> in an armed conflict. </p><p><i>Military necessity</i> is governed by several constraints: an attack or action must be intended to help in the defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a <a href="/wiki/Legitimate_military_target" title="Legitimate military target">legitimate military objective</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-military_objective_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-military_objective-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the harm caused to protected civilians or civilian property must be proportional and not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Distinction</i> is a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict, whereby <a href="/wiki/Belligerent" title="Belligerent">belligerents</a> must distinguish between <a href="/wiki/Combatant" title="Combatant">combatants</a> and protected <a href="/wiki/Civilian" title="Civilian">civilians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenberg2011''Illegal_Targeting_of_Civilians''_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenberg2011''Illegal_Targeting_of_Civilians''-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Proportionality</i> is a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict, whereby belligerents must make sure that the harm caused to protected civilians or civilian property is not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage expected by an attack on a legitimate military objective.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, as Robbie Sabel, Professor of international law at the Hebrew University, who has written on this topic, notes: “Anyone with experience in armed conflict knows that you want to hit the enemy’s forces harder than they hit you… if you are attacked with a rifle, there is no rule that stipulates that you can only shoot back with a rifle, but using a machine gun would not be fair, or that if you are attacked with only one tank you cannot shoot back with two.”<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Humanity</i> is a principle based on the 1907 Hague Convention <i>IV - The Laws and Customs of War on Land</i> restrictions against using arms, projectiles, or materials calculated to cause suffering or injury manifestly disproportionate to the military advantage realized by the use of the weapon for legitimate military purposes. In some countries, weapons are reviewed prior to their use in combat to determine if they comply with the law of war and are not designed to cause unnecessary suffering when used in their intended manner. This principle also prohibits using an otherwise lawful weapon in a manner that causes unnecessary suffering.<sup id="cite_ref-USAF_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAF-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Honour</i> is a principle that demands a certain amount of fairness and mutual respect between adversaries. Parties to a conflict must accept that their right to adopt means of injuring each other is not unlimited, they must refrain from taking advantage of the adversary's adherence to the law by falsely claiming the law's protections, and they must recognize that they are members of a common profession that fights not out of personal hostility but on behalf of their respective States.<sup id="cite_ref-USAF_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAF-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Example_substantive_laws_of_war">Example substantive laws of war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Example substantive laws of war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To fulfill the purposes noted above, the laws of war place substantive limits on the lawful exercise of a belligerent's power. Generally speaking, the laws require that belligerents refrain from employing <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> that is not reasonably necessary for military purposes and that belligerents conduct hostilities with regard for the principles of <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">humanity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chivalry" title="Chivalry">chivalry</a>. </p><p>However, because the laws of war are based on consensus (as the nature of international law often relies on self-policing by individual states), the content and interpretation of such laws are extensive, contested, and ever-changing.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following are particular examples of some of the substance of the laws of war, as those laws are interpreted today. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Declaration_of_war">Declaration of war</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Declaration of war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war">Declaration of war</a></div> <p>Section III of the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Convention_of_1907" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Convention of 1907">Hague Convention of 1907</a> required hostilities to be preceded by a reasoned <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_war" title="Declaration of war">declaration of war</a> or by an ultimatum with a conditional declaration of war. </p><p>Some treaties, notably the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Charter">United Nations Charter</a> (1945) Article 2,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other articles in the Charter, seek to curtail the right of member states to declare war; as does the older <a href="/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact" title="Kellogg–Briand Pact">Kellogg–Briand Pact</a> of 1928 for those nations who ratified it.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These have led to fewer modern armed conflicts being preceded by formal declarations of war, undermining the objectives of the Hague Convention. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lawful_conduct_of_belligerent_actors">Lawful conduct of belligerent actors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Lawful conduct of belligerent actors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Modern laws of war regarding conduct during war (<i>jus in bello</i>), such as the <a href="/wiki/1949_Geneva_Conventions" class="mw-redirect" title="1949 Geneva Conventions">1949 Geneva Conventions</a>, provide that it is unlawful for belligerents to engage in combat without meeting certain requirements. Article 4(a)(2) of the <i>Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War</i> recognizes Lawful Combatants by the following characteristics: </p> <ul><li>(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;</li> <li>(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;</li> <li>(c) That of carrying arms openly; and</li> <li>(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Impersonating enemy combatants by wearing the enemy's uniform is possibly allowed, however the issue is unsettled. Fighting in that uniform is unlawful <a href="/wiki/Perfidy" title="Perfidy">perfidy</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as is the taking of <a href="/wiki/Hostage" title="Hostage">hostages</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="reliable sources needed for the whole section (April 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. </p><p>Combatants also must be commanded by a responsible officer. That is, a commander can be held liable in a court of law for the improper actions of their subordinates. There is an exception to this if the war came on so suddenly that there was no time to organize a resistance, e.g. as a result of a <a href="/wiki/Foreign_occupation" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign occupation">foreign occupation</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="reliable source needed for the whole section (April 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="People_parachuting_from_an_aircraft_in_distress">People parachuting from an aircraft in distress</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: People parachuting from an aircraft in distress"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_parachutists" title="Attacks on parachutists">Attacks on parachutists</a></div> <p>Modern laws of war, specifically within <a href="/wiki/Protocol_I" title="Protocol I">Protocol I</a> additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, prohibits attacking people parachuting from an aircraft in distress regardless of what territory they are over. Once they land in territory controlled by the enemy, they must be given an opportunity to surrender before being attacked unless it is apparent that they are engaging in a hostile act or attempting to escape. This prohibition does not apply to the dropping of <a href="/wiki/Airborne_troops" class="mw-redirect" title="Airborne troops">airborne troops</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">special forces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commandos" class="mw-redirect" title="Commandos">commandos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">spies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saboteurs" class="mw-redirect" title="Saboteurs">saboteurs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liaison_officer" title="Liaison officer">liaison officers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_agency" title="Intelligence agency">intelligence agents</a>. Thus, such personnel descending by parachutes are legitimate targets and, therefore, may be attacked, even if their aircraft is in distress. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Red_Cross,_Red_Crescent,_Magen_David_Adom,_and_the_white_flag"><span id="Red_Cross.2C_Red_Crescent.2C_Magen_David_Adom.2C_and_the_white_flag"></span>Red Cross, Red Crescent, Magen David Adom, and the white flag</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Red Cross, Red Crescent, Magen David Adom, and the white flag"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg/220px-Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg/330px-Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg/440px-Emblem_of_the_ICRC.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="460" data-file-height="540" /></a><figcaption>The emblem of the <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a> (French: <i>Comité international de la croix-rouge</i>).</figcaption></figure> <p>Modern laws of war, such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, also include prohibitions on attacking <a href="/wiki/Physician" title="Physician">doctors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ambulance" title="Ambulance">ambulances</a> or <a href="/wiki/Hospital_ship" title="Hospital ship">hospital ships</a> displaying a <a href="/wiki/Red_Cross_(emblem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Cross (emblem)">Red Cross</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Red_Crescent_(emblem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Crescent (emblem)">Red Crescent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magen_David_Adom" title="Magen David Adom">Magen David Adom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement#Red_Crystal" title="Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">Red Crystal</a>, or other emblem related to the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement</a>. It is also prohibited to fire at a person or vehicle bearing a <a href="/wiki/White_flag" title="White flag">white flag</a>, since that indicates an intent to surrender or a desire to communicate.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In either case, people protected by the Red Cross/Crescent/Star or white flag are expected to maintain neutrality, and may not engage in warlike acts. In fact, engaging in war activities under a protected symbol is itself a violation of the laws of war known as <a href="/wiki/Perfidy" title="Perfidy">perfidy</a>. Failure to follow these requirements can result in the loss of protected status and make the individual violating the requirements a lawful target.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applicability_to_states_and_individuals">Applicability to states and individuals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Applicability to states and individuals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The law of war is binding not only upon states as such but also upon individuals and, in particular, the members of their <a href="/wiki/Armed_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Armed forces">armed forces</a>. Parties are bound by the laws of war to the extent that such compliance does not interfere with achieving legitimate military goals. For example, they are obliged to make every effort to avoid damaging people and property not involved in <a href="/wiki/Combat" title="Combat">combat</a> or the <a href="/wiki/War_effort" title="War effort">war effort</a>, but they are not guilty of a war crime if a bomb mistakenly or incidentally hits a residential area.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>By the same token, combatants that <i>intentionally</i> use protected people or property as <a href="/wiki/Human_shields" class="mw-redirect" title="Human shields">human shields</a> or <a href="/wiki/Camouflage" title="Camouflage">camouflage</a> are guilty of violations of the laws of war and are responsible for damage to those that should be protected.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mercenaries">Mercenaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Mercenaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The use of <a href="/wiki/Private_military_contractors" class="mw-redirect" title="Private military contractors">contracted combatants</a> in warfare has been an especially tricky situation for the laws of war. Some scholars claim that private security contractors appear so similar to state forces that it is unclear if acts of war are taking place by private or public agents.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">International law</a> has yet to come to a consensus on this issue. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_Mercenaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on Mercenaries">Convention on Mercenaries</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Remedies_for_violations">Remedies for violations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Remedies for violations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During conflict, <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a> for violating the laws of war may consist of a specific, deliberate and limited violation of the laws of war in <a href="/wiki/Reprisal" title="Reprisal">reprisal</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>After a conflict ends, any persons who have committed or ordered any breach of the laws of war, especially atrocities, may be held individually accountable for <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes">war crimes</a>. Also, nations that signed the Geneva Conventions are required to search for, try and punish, anyone who had committed or ordered certain "grave breaches" of the laws of war. (<a href="/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention" title="Third Geneva Convention">Third Geneva Convention</a>, Article 129 and Article 130.) </p><p>Combatants who break specific provisions of the laws of war are termed <a href="/wiki/Unlawful_combatants" class="mw-redirect" title="Unlawful combatants">unlawful combatants</a>. Unlawful combatants who have been captured may lose the status and protections that would otherwise be afforded to them as <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>, but only after a "<a href="/wiki/Competent_tribunal" title="Competent tribunal">competent tribunal</a>" has determined that they are not eligible for POW status (e.g., Third Geneva Convention, Article 5.) At that point, an unlawful combatant may be interrogated, tried, imprisoned, and even executed for their violation of the laws of war pursuant to the domestic law of their captor, but they are still entitled to certain additional protections, including that they be "treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_a_fair_trial" title="Right to a fair trial">rights of fair and regular trial</a>." (<a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Fourth Geneva Convention</a> Article 5.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_treaties_on_the_laws_of_war">International treaties on the laws of war</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: International treaties on the laws of war"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_international_declarations" title="List of international declarations">List of international declarations</a></div> <p>List of declarations, conventions, treaties, and judgments on the laws of war:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobertsGuelff2000_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobertsGuelff2000-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>1856 <a href="/wiki/Paris_Declaration_Respecting_Maritime_Law" title="Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law">Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law</a> abolished <a href="/wiki/Privateering" class="mw-redirect" title="Privateering">privateering</a>.</li> <li>1863 <a href="/wiki/United_States_military" class="mw-redirect" title="United States military">United States military</a> adopts the <a href="/wiki/Lieber_Code" title="Lieber Code">Lieber Code</a>, a compilation of extant international norms on the treatment of civilians assembled by German scholar <a href="/wiki/Franz_Lieber" class="mw-redirect" title="Franz Lieber">Franz Lieber</a>.</li> <li>1864 <a href="/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention" title="First Geneva Convention">Geneva Convention</a> for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1868 <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg_Declaration_(1868)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg Declaration (1868)">St. Petersburg Declaration</a>, officially the Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight, renounced the usage of explosive projectiles with a mass of less than 400 grams.</li> <li>1874 Project of an International Declaration concerning the Laws and Customs of War (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Brussels_Declaration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brussels Declaration (page does not exist)">Brussels Declaration</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Signed in Brussels 27 August. This agreement never entered into force, but formed part of the basis for the codification of the laws of war at the 1899 <a href="/wiki/Hague_Peace_Conference_(1899)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Peace Conference (1899)">Hague Peace Conference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ICRC-1874_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICRC-1874-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laws_of_War_on_Land_(Oxford_1880)" title="Laws of War on Land (Oxford 1880)">1880 Manual of the Laws and Customs of War</a> at <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>. At its session in Geneva in 1874 the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_International_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Institute of International Law">Institute of International Law</a> appointed a committee to study the <i>Brussels Declaration</i> of the same year and to submit to the Institute its opinion and supplementary proposals on the subject. The work of the Institute led to the adoption of the Manual in 1880 and it went on to form part of the basis for the codification of the laws of war at the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.<sup id="cite_ref-ICRC-1874_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ICRC-1874-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hague_Conventions_(1899)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Conventions (1899)">1899 Hague Conventions</a> consisted of three main sections and three additional declarations: <ul><li>I – Pacific Settlement of International Disputes</li> <li>II – Laws and Customs of War on Land</li> <li>III – Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of Principles of Geneva Convention of 1864</li> <li>Declaration I – On the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons</li> <li>Declaration II – On the Use of Projectiles the Object of Which is the Diffusion of Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases</li> <li>Declaration III – On the Use of Bullets Which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hague_Conventions_(1907)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Conventions (1907)">1907 Hague Conventions</a> had thirteen sections, of which twelve were ratified and entered into force, and two declarations: <ul><li>I – The Pacific Settlement of International Disputes</li> <li>II – The Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts</li> <li>III – The Opening of Hostilities</li> <li>IV – The Laws and Customs of War on Land</li> <li>V – The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land</li> <li>VI – The Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities</li> <li>VII – The Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-ships</li> <li>VIII – The Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines</li> <li>IX – Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War</li> <li>X – Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention</li> <li>XI – Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War</li> <li>XII – The Creation of an International Prize Court [Not Ratified]*</li> <li>XIII – The Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War</li> <li>Declaration I – extending Declaration II from the 1899 Conference to other types of aircraft</li> <li>Declaration II – on the obligatory arbitration</li></ul></li> <li>1909 <a href="/wiki/London_Declaration_concerning_the_Laws_of_Naval_War" title="London Declaration concerning the Laws of Naval War">London Declaration concerning the Laws of Naval War</a> largely reiterated existing law, although it showed greater regard to the rights of neutral entities. Never went into effect.</li> <li>1922 The <a href="/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty" title="Washington Naval Treaty">Washington Naval Treaty</a>, also known as the <i>Five-Power Treaty</i> (6 February)</li> <li>1923 Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare. Never adopted in a legally binding form.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1925 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Protocol" title="Geneva Protocol">Geneva protocol</a> for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1927–1930 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Greco-German_arbitration_tribunal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greco-German arbitration tribunal (page does not exist)">Greco-German arbitration tribunal</a></li> <li>1928 <a href="/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact" title="Kellogg–Briand Pact">General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy</a> (also known as the <i>Pact of Paris</i> or <i>Kellogg-Briand Pact</i>)</li> <li>1929 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Convention,_Relative_to_the_treatment_of_prisoners_of_war_(1929)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Convention, Relative to the treatment of prisoners of war (1929)">Geneva Convention, Relative to the treatment of prisoners of war</a>.</li> <li>1929 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Convention_for_the_amelioration_of_the_condition_of_the_wounded_and_sick_in_armies_in_the_field_(1929)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armies in the field (1929)">Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field</a>,</li> <li>1930 <a href="/wiki/London_Naval_Treaty" title="London Naval Treaty">Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament</a> (22 April)</li> <li>1935 <a href="/wiki/Roerich_Pact" title="Roerich Pact">Roerich Pact</a></li> <li>1936 <a href="/wiki/Second_London_Naval_Treaty" title="Second London Naval Treaty">Second London Naval Treaty</a> (25 March)</li> <li>1938 Amsterdam Draft Convention for the Protection of Civilian Populations Against New Engines of War. (Officially the Draft Convention for the Protection of Civilian Populations Against New Engines of War. Amsterdam, 1938). This convention was never ratified.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1938 <a href="/wiki/League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> declaration for the "Protection of Civilian Populations Against Bombing From the Air in Case of War<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1945 <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Charter" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Charter">United Nations Charter</a> (entered into force on October 24, 1945)</li> <li>1946 Judgment of the International <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Tribunal" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuremberg Tribunal">Military Tribunal at Nuremberg</a></li> <li>1947 <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuremberg Principles">Nuremberg Principles</a> formulated under <a href="/wiki/UN_General_Assembly_Resolution_177" class="mw-redirect" title="UN General Assembly Resolution 177">UN General Assembly Resolution 177</a>, 21 November 1947</li> <li>1948 <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide">Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide</a></li> <li>1949 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention" title="First Geneva Convention">Geneva Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Geneva_Convention" title="Second Geneva Convention">Geneva Convention II for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention" title="Third Geneva Convention">Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War</a></li></ul></li> <li>1954 <a href="/wiki/Hague_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Cultural_Property_in_the_Event_of_Armed_Conflict" title="Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict">Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict</a></li> <li>1971 Zagreb Resolution of the Institute of International Law on Conditions of Application of Humanitarian Rules of Armed Conflict to Hostilities in which the United Nations Forces May be Engaged</li> <li>1974 United Nations <a href="/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Protection_of_Women_and_Children_in_Emergency_and_Armed_Conflict" title="Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict">Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict</a></li> <li>1977 United Nations <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prohibition_of_Military_or_Any_Other_Hostile_Use_of_Environmental_Modification_Techniques" class="mw-redirect" title="Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques">Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques</a></li> <li>1977 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Protocol_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Protocol I">Geneva Protocol I</a> Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts</li> <li>1977 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Protocol_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Protocol II">Geneva Protocol II</a> Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts</li> <li>1978 Red Cross Fundamental Rules of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts</li> <li>1980 United Nations <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventional_Weapons" title="Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons">Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects</a> (CCW) <ul><li>1980 Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments</li> <li>1980 <a href="/wiki/Protocol_II_on_Prohibitions_or_Restrictions_on_the_Use_of_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices" class="mw-redirect" title="Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices">Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices</a></li> <li>1980 <a href="/wiki/Protocol_on_Incendiary_Weapons" title="Protocol on Incendiary Weapons">Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons</a></li> <li>1995 <a href="/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons" title="Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons">Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons</a></li> <li>1996 <a href="/wiki/Amended_Protocol_II_on_Prohibitions_or_Restrictions_on_the_Use_of_Mines,_Booby-Traps_and_Other_Devices" class="mw-redirect" title="Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices">Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protocol_on_Explosive_Remnants_of_War" title="Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War">Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War</a> (Protocol V to the 1980 Convention), 28 November 2003 (entered into force 12 November 2006)<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>1994 <a href="/wiki/San_Remo_Manual" title="San Remo Manual">San Remo Manual</a> on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994 ICRC/UNGA Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Time of Armed Conflict<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994 UN <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Safety_of_United_Nations_and_Associated_Personnel" title="Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel">Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1996 The <a href="/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice" title="International Court of Justice">International Court of Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/Advisory_opinion" title="Advisory opinion">advisory opinion</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Legality_of_the_Threat_or_Use_of_Nuclear_Weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons">Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons</a></li> <li>1997 <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty" title="Ottawa Treaty">Ottawa Treaty - Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction</a></li> <li>1998 <a href="/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court">Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court</a> (entered into force 1 July 2002)</li> <li>2000 <a href="/wiki/Optional_Protocol_on_the_Involvement_of_Children_in_Armed_Conflict" title="Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict">Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict</a> (entered into force 12 February 2002)</li> <li>2005 <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Protocol_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Protocol III">Geneva Protocol III</a> Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem</li> <li>2008 <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions" title="Convention on Cluster Munitions">Convention on Cluster Munitions</a> (entered into force 1 August 2010)</li> <li>2017 <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons" title="Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons">Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</a> (entered into force 22 January 2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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Article 51.3 of <a href="/wiki/Protocol_I" title="Protocol I">Protocol I</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a> explains that "Civilians shall enjoy the protection afforded by this section, unless and for such time as they take a direct part in hostilities".</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-What_is_IHL?-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-What_is_IHL?_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www3.nd.edu/~cpence/eewt/IHLRI2009.pdf">"What is IHL?"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 2013-12-30. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234056/http://www3.nd.edu/~cpence/eewt/IHLRI2009.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 2013-12-30<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(Source: <a href="#CITEREFMoreno-Ocampo2006">Moreno-Ocampo 2006</a>, page 5, footnote 11).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoreno-Ocampo2006See_section_"Allegations_concerning_War_Crimes"_Pages_4,5_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMoreno-Ocampo2006">Moreno-Ocampo 2006</a>, See section "Allegations concerning War Crimes" Pages 4,5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGreenberg2011''Illegal_Targeting_of_Civilians''-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGreenberg2011''Illegal_Targeting_of_Civilians''_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGreenberg2011">Greenberg 2011</a>, <i>Illegal Targeting of Civilians</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSabel2023" class="citation journal cs1">Sabel, Robbie (December 18, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2023.2289272?src=exp-la">"International Law and the Conflict in Gaza"</a>. <i>Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs</i>. <b>17</b> (3): 260–264. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F23739770.2023.2289272">10.1080/23739770.2023.2289272</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Israel+Journal+of+Foreign+Affairs&rft.atitle=International+Law+and+the+Conflict+in+Gaza&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=260-264&rft.date=2023-12-18&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F23739770.2023.2289272&rft.aulast=Sabel&rft.aufirst=Robbie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F23739770.2023.2289272%3Fsrc%3Dexp-la&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-USAF-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-USAF_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-USAF_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/documents/Annex_3-60/3-60-D33-Target-LOAC.pdf">"Basic Principles of the Law Of War and Their Targeting Implications"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Curtis E. 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(2013), <i>Ethics and the Laws of War: The moral justification of legal norms</i>, Routledge</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ethics+and+the+Laws+of+War%3A+The+moral+justification+of+legal+norms&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Lamb&rft.aufirst=A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoreno-Ocampo2006" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Luis_Moreno-Ocampo" class="mw-redirect" title="Luis Moreno-Ocampo">Moreno-Ocampo, Luis</a> (9 February 2006), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/F596D08D-D810-43A2-99BB-B899B9C5BCD2/277422/OTP_letter_to_senders_re_Iraq_9_February_2006.pdf"><i>OTP letter to senders re Iraq</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=OTP+letter+to+senders+re+Iraq&rft.pub=International+Criminal+Court&rft.date=2006-02-09&rft.aulast=Moreno-Ocampo&rft.aufirst=Luis&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icc-cpi.int%2FNR%2Frdonlyres%2FF596D08D-D810-43A2-99BB-B899B9C5BCD2%2F277422%2FOTP_letter_to_senders_re_Iraq_9_February_2006.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoseley2009" class="citation cs2">Moseley, Alex (2009), "Just War Theory", <i>The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</i></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Just+War+Theory&rft.btitle=The+Internet+Encyclopedia+of+Philosophy&rft.date=2009&rft.aulast=Moseley&rft.aufirst=Alex&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobertsGuelff2000" class="citation cs2">Roberts, Adam; Guelff, Richard, eds. (2000), <i>Documents on the Laws of War</i> (Third ed.), Oxford University press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-876390-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-876390-1"><bdi>978-0-19-876390-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Documents+on+the+Laws+of+War&rft.edition=Third&rft.pub=Oxford+University+press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-19-876390-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/CONVPRES?OpenView"><i>Texts and commentaries of 1949 Geneva Conventions & Additional Protocols</i></a></cite><span 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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Just+and+Unjust+Wars%3A+A+Moral+Argument+with+Historical+Illustrations&rft.place=New+York&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Basic+Books&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Walzer&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.firstthings.com%2Farticle%2F2007%2F01%2Fmichael-walzerjust-and-unjust-wars-1977-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaw+of+war" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Witt, John Fabian. <i>Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History</i> (Free Press; 2012) 498 pages; on the evolution and legacy of a code commissioned by President Lincoln in the Civil War</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_of_war&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/index.jsp">War & law index</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140815094117/http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/index.jsp">Archived</a> 2014-08-15 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>—International Committee of the Red Cross website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lawofwar.org">International Law of War Association</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130412144527/http://www.eiil.eu/">The 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