Specially Protected Persons in Combat Situations (new title)

[Tukhachevskii]

One of the major problems with these different versions of the Law of War, and which nations have ratified the different versions and which have not, is when they lead to spurious claims of "war crimes" in the battle for hearts and minds in the media and public opinion. It spills over into Information Operations to paint one side or the other as being vile and wicked.

Let's not forget that our media are very often our own worst enemy's. Given their inability to report the facts faithfully and without embellishment or without supporting our enemies in the process (i.e., doing their IO/Psyops work for them). The following paper really opened my eyes in that respect (and always thought it was Al-Jazeera and Al-Mattar that were the bad guys!)...

The Media as a Weapon in Asymetircal conflict