Was it to demolish the rest of the boat that had been hit but not completely destroyed, or for was it for the principal purpose of eliminating the survivors? If they were killed in the course of the rest of the boat being destroyed, if it was sufficiently intact caused military personnel to think that the job had not been finished, that’s another matter. Meanwhile, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote in The New Republic, The Defense Department’s Law of War Manual prohibits declaring ‘no quarter,’ forbids conducting operations ‘on the basis that there shall be no survivors,’ and states unequivocally that ‘persons placed hors de combat [out of the fight] may not be made the object of attack.
Author: Michael Luciano
Published at: 2025-12-01 23:57:06
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