OK. Well, I mean, obviously, his authority as the commander extends to the entire operation in the Caribbean, and that would have included both the first strike and the second strike. The question that we have all been asking over the last several days since the reports first came out are whether or not those orders emanated from a higher level and were simply executed by the admiral and all the people below him in the chain of command or whether the admiral himself ordered the second strike. The Law of War Manual that you just quoted from a minute ago has an additional provision in it later on in the text that uses the precise example of shooting survivors in the water as an example of an unlawful order.
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Published at: 2025-12-01 23:53:39
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