is truly amazing. Your explanation fits right into what I've been doing for the last two hours - starting here and reading through to the end. Dated stuff, but now I know the critter with whom we're dealing.

Quick reaction was what mentally challenged "general's son" decided to adopt a "legislative" (aka legalistic) methodology in developing a military operational program.

Looks like the training works - and, on that one, I'll take your word for it. But, it seems to complicate a simpler world - Hague, the GCs and old FM27-10 are not that complex.

What is revolting to me is that, in some (many?) instances, I have as good (and maybe better) self-defense rights as some trooper in what is in reality a war zone (yup, I know, it's "peacekeeping", "crisis management" or a "stability operation").

Anyway, this system looks as poured into concrete as the various systems and structures driven by the defense appropriations process. As an old lawyer once told me re: the Internal Revenue Code and Regulations - don't approach them with logic because there ain't none.