Alot of interesting ideas and belives in this post, but war is a something that cant be understood, and cant be regulatet...Each culture have there way of thinking war, they have there own rules of war. These rules are set by culture, not by moral and ethics.
On top of that you throw in the information you give to the soldiers, so you can manipulate them to do what you want.
All armys have there own culture, that is made from there countrys history, and any leader will use this to "direct" there troops in war.
It sounds awsome mentioning moral and ethics when there is talk about war, but moral and ethics are not native to war. We are trying to make war look pretty and that is just imposible, why? well you thow in the human factor and added to the chaos of war you will end up with less and less control (many commanders doing all time have looked the other way when some soldier did something wrong) why to keep control...
Any war is a dynamic creature, there is so many factors involved that its easyer to wright two words "ethic/moral" than sit down and break war up to the layers it realy is...
One thing is for sure
You cant regulate a dynamic situation like war with a static rule set to be used in the war. Way way to many factors involved.
If you fight a war for right or wrong, you end up loosing. If you fight a war for win/loose you got a better chanse of winning....
Static rules for war will only prolong it. War should be fought as that, a war. Not using static rules, but using ROE`s specific for the war.
Conventions sounds good, we throw on a human face to somthing that simply cant ever be "pretty"
If you go to war, accept that and accept that war is bloody darn ugly and no matter how much makeup you put on it, it stil looks ugly so why use the bloody makup in the first place...
for the record
**I have been in 3 conflict zones, seen both civilian and conventional warfare that is how i learned about war**
LTbear
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