Sentences with word «noncombatants»

Three panels representing lives and wounded of our military and civilian noncombatants in the arenas of Iraq and Afghanistan since U.S. involvement began.

In the tradition, this and other texts become the basis for a general rule: Never directly and intentionally target noncombatants.

It will be the research task of engaged theological and biocentric ethics to know how many noncombatant civilians were killed in that massacre.

His chapter on the use of force is quite clear and specific as it weighs the realities of possible noncombatant deaths against the severity of human rights violations.

The governor also controlled the drone's Hellfire missiles (allowed to hit targets 20 feet from noncombatants) and machine guns (1 foot).

c. Military Service: Service in the military forces of any country at war or in any civilian noncombatant unit serving with those forces.

Since, apparently, the ISIS members who do such things as kidnap and behead noncombatants act with the conviction that it is what God wants them to do, it's relevant to ask of believers in general if absolute commitment to doing God's will as they think they know it is a feature of true belief in God.

In a just war one has an obligation to distinguish combatants and minimize noncombatant deaths.

The logic of the provision is that direct and intentional targeting of noncombatants constitutes murder.

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

The notion that in war noncombatants must never be made the object of direct attacks is but one instance of the application of the categorical prohibition of murder to the realm of war.

But civilians may feel that measures to ensure the physical security of former FARC fighters and provide them financial benefits favor the ex-guerrillas over noncombatants.

When I was in school studying IR, we learned examples where military personnel are generally noncombatants, such as shipwrecked sailors and (as ohwilleke notes) injured ones receiving treatment.

Child soldiers may also be considered noncombatants, since a crime has been committed for them to be fighting.

More than 1,400 members of the Air Force participated in the study, including 600 noncombatant airmen and 864 operators of Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk (unarmed) drones.

That's a consequence of large populations acting as a buffer against war casualties among noncombatants, not a lesser appetite for violence, the researchers contend.

The Sri Lanka Army Womens Corps (SLAWC) was formed on 1 September 1979 as an unarmed, noncombatant support unit.

Another dispatch from the Mexican drug war, this time about noncombatants caught in the crossfire, it pales in comparison to Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala in filmmaking terms but I suppose that it packs a crude punch (body count: 3 + 2 dogs).

Now noncombatants wandering by a blast site are seen as «proportionate» collateral damage — «wrong place, wrong time.»

Although Spain and Portugal were officially neutral noncombatants in the war, in reality both countries tolerated, and even actively encouraged, German espionage on a grand scale.

In particular, serious concern was expressed about the nature of fully autonomous weapons and their likely inability, in making attack decisions, to distinguish noncombatants and judge the proportionality of expected civilian harms to expected military gains.

Noncombatant immunity / discrimination.

It establishes that one can not intentionally or directly kill noncombatants.

Several weeks into the war with Iraq, Elshtain expressed confidence that the American and British forces in Iraq had not intentionally targeted noncombatants.

11 bit studio's 2014 title This War of Mine sought to present the civilian experience of surviving in a besieged city, while Ubisoft's 2014 title Valiant Hearts, although set during World War I, focused on the human stories of both soldiers and noncombatants during that conflict.

Rules of the ethical governor were clear: For instance, restricted by blast radius, the drone could not launch a 500 - pound laser - guided bomb on targets less than 2,000 feet from noncombatants — unless that target was critical, perhaps a top - level Al Qaeda operative.

All four orthodox schools of law, including the conservative Hanbali school, declare that women, children, the elderly, the disabled, priests, traders, farmers, and all noncombatant civilians should not be targeted and killed in a jihad.

The combatant in war, unlike the noncombatant, is not considered to be an innocent, and those executed are first found guilty of murder.

Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants.

[26] He writes that in practice the Marxists saw the construction of their utopia as «a war on poverty, exploitation, imperialism and inequality — and, as in a real war, noncombatants would unfortunately get caught in the battle.

The second pertains to what is called «noncombatant immunity,» meaning that there must be no intentional killing of innocent civilians.

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

If it abides by just war constraints, the U.S. will put its combatants in harm's way to punish and interdict those who have put our noncombatants in harm's way.