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Indeed, members of the International and Operational Law Department at The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS) published a series of notes in The Army Lawyer attempting to resolve the precise parameters, and resulting restrictions, of the principles and spirit of the law of war.7 In the past year, while discussing this language with students at TJAGLCS, the author has observed students reach the following two conclusions: first, that the "principles and spirit" language can serve as useful ammunition in the fight to promote increased application of the law of war and second, that language can also serve to justify nearly any deviation from what would be binding international law were the law strictly applied.
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...; it even runs a rudimentary welfare program for its fighters, and their rela tives and as...
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[...] the publication of Department of Defense Directive (DOD Dir.) 2311.01E reinforces the proposition that the primary standard of conduct for military operations is established by the law of armed conflict applied to international armed conflicts, including customary international law, in all military operations.15 The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan, the DTA, the MCA, and the publication of the DOD Dir. 2311.01E on the LOW Program have all reinforced the proposition that the military is guided by an immutable set of legal principles that establish the rules of conduct for our profession. 17 Article 4 to Geneva Convention III set the standard to obtain prisoner of war (POW) status for militias and irregular forces that are answerable to the government of a high contacting party.1...
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...56 Under the DOD Law of War Program, "[i]t is DOD policy that [m]embers of the DOD Com...
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... responded with the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a $700 billion rescue package for banks an...
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... Regulation Supplement; DoD Law of War Program (DFARS Case 2006-D035). AGENCY: Defense Acquisitio...
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... and ongoing military modernization program." . Knowing this, one cannot help but wonder if th...
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES HOLD...
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... control and disarmament, supervision of programs authorized by the Peace Corps Act, social science ...