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military occupation
(redirected from Rules of war)

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A condition in which territory is under the effective control of a foreign armed force. See also occupied territory; phases of military government.


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Non-state actors -- like Hamas and Hezbollah, or the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- that shield themselves behind a defenseless civilian population expose the widening gap between the traditional rules of war and the realities of today's battlefield.
Oates, a historian of Jacobite uprisings, draws on primary sources, official and personal correspondence, diaries, and memoirs to examine Cumberland's character and his record as a soldier, in particular his behavior towards enemy wounded and prisoners, within the context of the rules of war as they were understood and applied in the eighteenth century.
The report had also accused Israel of harming unarmed civilians and of violating the rules of war with it blocking the Gaza Strip.
 
 
 
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