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  • Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law

    International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
    Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009

  • What if

    If one buys the conventional wisdom and believes that all effort in Iraq is doomed to failure then the article makes perfect sense. Liberals and isolationists would have the electorate believe that the military has no role in solving problems like the festering canker sore that was Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. Liberals and isolationists would ...
    Posted to War Stories by utdcometsoccer on November 4, 2007

  • Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!

    Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007

  • Petraeus Was following orders - Dumb ones!

    Theoretical Solutions to Non-Sequiturian Problems Military officers are trained to do two things. They know how to give orders and they know take orders. General David Howell Petraeus was ordered to devise a comprehensive strategy for counter insurgency and that he did. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf The problems was, why and for ...
    Posted to War Stories by hotlicks on September 22, 2007