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    Default Specially Protected Persons in Combat Situations (new title)

    Moderator's Note

    The author of this post suggested the thread's title be changed from 'Achilles Heel: getting our arses kicked by kids?' and so with consummate legal skill jmm99 has suggested:
    'Specially Protected Persons in Combat Situations'

    So far a number of those "special protectees" have been mentioned:

    1. child soldiers
    2. children in general
    3. civilians in general
    4. persons held under a belligerent's power (de hors rule #1)
    5. persons wounded (de hors rule #2)
    6. persons surrendering (de hors rule #3)
    7. medical rescuers (military & civilian)

    We might subtitle it:

    "How honest, law-abiding regular forces are getting their arses shot off because a cloud-cuckoo-wunderland morass has been imposed on them to create criminal sanctions against dishonest, law-shirking regular and irregular forces who could care less because the Hague is too remote".

    With credits to Tukhii and NZ O'Neill.
    Original Post below


    I have been thinking about ways our enemies could continue to gut us morally (in terms of atatcking the legitimacy of our governments at home) and of how Muslim combatants could pursue their goals by using our own culture against us. So, what would our strategy, or more importantly, our rules of engagement be, if, say during a "humantarian" intervention into Darfur or Ethiopia we were confronted with hordes of child soldiers?
    Last edited by davidbfpo; 10-01-2010 at 08:53 PM. Reason: 1) Change thread title, 2) Add Mod's note

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