Quote Originally Posted by Pete View Post
Some years back officers of the U.S. Army Judge-Advocate General Corps put themselves in a bad odor within DoD from having to serve as advisors within targetting cells on the legality of engaging certain targets. Wesley Clark complained that during the Kosovo affair JAG officers denied him the right to engage suspected sites of Serbian anti-aircraft artillery because the latest version of the Geneva Convention -- one the U.S. didn't ratify -- requires that ground reconnaissance be conducted to confirm the presence of the enemy before such fire missions are fired, contrary to U.S. Army artillery doctrine.
If so, some JAG doesn't know their Geneva Conventions (Additional Protocols I and II) very well, which at no point mention "ground reconnaissance" but simply prohibit indiscriminate attacks.