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    NATO Lessons Learned

    This weekend, the NYT ran an analysis, NATO Sees Flaws in Air Campaign Against Qaddafi (by ERIC SCHMITT, April 14, 2012), in part addressing the scope of the US involvement in NATO's air campaign.
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    This comment is not directed at anyone here

    (including COL Jones and Dayuhan).

    It is directed against those in my profession in the International Law field (both in the US and elsewhere) who (1) select "justice" where the US is involved -...
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    No, your syllogism doesn't work

    The correct phrase is: All successful insurgents are by definition "the new government".

    In the eyes of that new government, our militiaman from Misrata is one of its many conquering heroes - none...
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    A US Practical Precedent

    The Law as it reads -

    No matter how you cut the doctrinal legal sausage, captured means detain under humane conditions for the duration of hostilities - subject to concurrent trial before a...
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    The NTC vs the Misrata Militia ?

    I don't have a dog in this race; but it may be interesting to see how the NTC handles its most recent change in course.

    From The Guardian, Gaddafi killer faces prosecution, says Libyan interim...
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    Take the first sentence

    of this:



    and remove it from your Words and Phrases. The "if" voids any genuine apology (and I don't like apologies anyway). That being said, the rest I accept completely as a valid...
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    Carl, the questions were non-legal

    You elected not to answer them. That's your right.

    My right is to ignore your comments.

    Regards

    Mike
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    Why kill it?

    Why not backoff ? Why not bypass it ? Why not capture it ?

    Do you exclude those COAs ?

    If you don't exclude alternative COAs, what are your criteria to select among them ?

    Regards

    Mike
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    I'd like to think ...

    both points are "obvious":



    but, in truth, I don't think that's the case.

    For example, 1977 Additional Protocol II (not acceded by USA; acceded by Libya, 7 Jun 1978):
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    A Lesson Repeated,

    at least to me, from the methodologies employed by the "Libyan Oppositon" (in quotes because it's not a monolith), is that the massive "lawyerly" volumes of International Humanitarian Law (e.g., as...
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