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	Trial of Otto Skorzeny and Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission.
		It is a generally recognised rule that the belligerents are allowed to employ ruses of war or stratagems during battles.
		When contemplating whether the wearing of enemy uniforms is or is not a legal ruse of war, one must distinguish between the use of enemy uniforms in actual fighting and such use during operations other than actual fighting.
		Some writers hold the view that until the actual fighting starts the combatants may use enemy uniforms as a legitimate ruse of war, others think that the use of enemy uniforms is illegal even before the actual attack.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/skorzeny.htm (1913 words)

	War crime - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A war crime is a punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.
		War crimes are sometimes part of instances of mass murder and genocide though these crimes are more broadly covered under the human rights law described as crimes against humanity.
		War crimes are significant in human rights law because it is an area where international tribunals such as the Nuremberg Trials have been convened.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wa/war_crime.html (339 words)

	WAR CRIME FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		War crimes include violations of established protections of the ''laws of war'', but also include failures to adhere to norms of procedure and rules of battle, such as attacking those displaying a flag_of_truce, or using that same flag as a ruse_of_war to mount an attack.
		War crimes are sometimes part of instances of mass_murder and genocide though these crimes are more broadly covered under international_humanitarian_law described as crimes_against_humanity.
		War crimes are significant in international humanitarian law because it is an area where international tribunals such as the Nuremberg_Trials have been convened.
	www.gottagetflowers.com /war_crime (402 words)

	Ruse of war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		disguising a warship to appear to be a neutral merchant vessel, or a merchant vessel on your opponent's side, has traditionally been considered a legitimate ruse de guerre, provided the belligerent raises their own flag, to break the deception, prior to firing their guns.
		Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.
		Skorzeny later reported that he was told by experts in military law that wearing the American uniforms was a defensible ruse de guerre, provided his troops took off their American uniforms, and put on German uniforms, prior to firing their weapons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruse_of_war (688 words)

	Encyclopedia: War crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		War crimes include violations of established protections of the laws of war, but also include failures to adhere to norms of procedure and rules of battle, such as attacking those displaying a flag of truce, or using that same flag as a ruse of war to mount an attack.
		International Humanitarian Law (IHL), also known as the law of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus comprised of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Regulations, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, and customary international law.
		Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/War-crime (1482 words)

	Ruse of war -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In general, a belligerent may resort to those measures for mystifying or misleading the enemy against which the enemy ought to take measures to protect itself.
		Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve (An act of deliberate betrayal) treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.
		Skorzeny has reported that he was told by experts in military law that wearing the American uniforms was a defensible ruse de guerre, provided his troops took off their American uniforms, and put on German uniforms, prior to firing their weapons.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruse_of_war.htm (590 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > The Book
		Investigators for the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said the fact that many of those in the retreating column were Bosnian government soldiers made the column a military threat and thus a legitimate target.
		A ruse is an act that is intended to mislead an adversary or to “induce him to act recklessly” but which infringe no rule of armed conflict and do not attempt to gain his confidence by assuring protection under law.
		This was not a ruse, which is legal in warfare, but treachery pure and simple, and it cost thousands of people their lives.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/perfidy-treachery.html (737 words)

	JS Online: 36% of residents call war a success
		Wisconsin residents continue to believe the war in Iraq is a success and suspect that Iraqis buried or destroyed weapons of mass destruction, according to poll results released Thursday.
		When asked for their assessment of the war, 36% of residents said it was completely or mostly a success while 45% think it's only partly a success; 18% thought it was a failure.
		It is noteworthy that although residents' high opinion of the war dropped from May to August, beliefs have stayed mostly the same since then, said G. Donald Ferree Jr., associate director for public opinion research at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/nov03/183204.asp?format=print (737 words)

	The Art of War
		The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field.
		WAGING WAR [Ts`ao Kung has the note: "He who wishes to fight must first count the cost," which prepares us for the discovery that the subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title, but is primarily a consideration of ways and means.] 1.
		Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, [The "swift chariots" were lightly built and, according to Chang Yu, used for the attack; the "heavy chariots" were heavier, and designed for purposes of defense.
	www.brainsnchips.org /methods/suntzu.htm (18758 words)

	A War That Cannot Be
		Two decades later, the ruse for war returned with the surfacing of false reports that Vietcong gunboats had attacked two American war ships in the Tonkin Gulf.
		The motive for the land war has spun from Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, to the changing of his regime, to the clear and present threat that his 93-mile missiles pose to the continental United States.
		The rationale against the Iraq war is grounded in the role of the United States as the lone superpower, unchallenged and unchallengeable.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views03/0316-06.htm (793 words)

	What's New
		At the end of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of which the United States was a leading member (the Tribunal was established by Douglas MacArthur) convicted former Japanese Prime Minister Tojo and numerous other generals and admirals of a panoply of war crimes.
		The practice of torturing prisoners of war and civilian internees prevailed at practically all places occupied by Japanese troops, both in the occupied territories and in Japan.
		A synopsis may be found in most decent law school law libraries in the Law Reports of Trials of Major War Criminals Vol 5 at p.1 There are, of course, lot of other references to water torture by the Japanese, not least in the Judgment of the IMT Far East.
	www.lawofwar.org /what's_new.htm (1510 words)

	Law of simulated war
		War is utilized by those power structures embodied in the program and the cartel "to blind us to their own existence," an existence which remains precisely the same in periods of war and non-war.
		The structural relationship between Roszavolgyi's concern with the effects of war and Pointsman's identification with the causes of war is paralleled by the dynamic between Blicero's preserving routine and Pudding's adherence to military memory.
		In his Gulf War writings, Baudrillard insists that "the disappearance of the symbolic passage to the act," along with the absence of dramatic uncertainty, an armistice and other definitive elements of war, marks the Gulf War as a simulation of war.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/spencer24.htm (7298 words)

	Trojan War -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		(See Troy.) The war stirred the imagination of the ancient Greeks more than any other event in their history, and was celebrated in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, as well as a number of other early works now lost, and...
		The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena that would make Troy impregnable.
		Because the Homeric epic ‘The Iliad' involved ancient Greek gods and goddesses in fantasies of heroism and revenge, the poem's background—the end of the Trojan War after a 10-year siege of Troy—seems to be part of the mythology.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9381198 (1070 words)

	Sun Tzu's Art of War
		The two states, Ch`u and Wu, had been constantly at war for over half a century, [31] whereas the first war between Wu and Yueh was waged only in 510, [32] and even then was no more than a short interlude sandwiched in the midst of the fierce struggle with Ch`u.
		War may be defined as punishment, which is one of the functions of government.
		Now war constitutes one of the five classes of State ceremonial, [66] and must not be treated as an independent branch of study.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/staow.html (19395 words)

	Stratagems of War
		Stratagems of war are an essential complement to tactics, that is: the art of winning battles.
		At war, it is then very important to try to kill this one man: the opposing leader.
		Une autre ruse de guerre des Mongols consiste à tromper l'ennemi sur leur nombre en dressant des mannequins que l'on fixe sur les chevaux de réserve.
	home.ca.inter.net /~giskhan/Stratagems_of_War.html (6775 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Rationalize with lies
		Some rather creative post-hoc arguments are being made to justify the unnecessary war the United States waged on a sovereign nation that had not attacked us, was no threat to us and was certainly no match for us.
		Those who insisted Saddam had WMD and said war was the only way were certainly not hedging their words or their actions.
		Novak leaves off that when launching war against a nation which is not being aggressive and doesn't want war, the onus is on the aggressor, not the aggressed against, to justify his actions, at least according to the conventional morality espoused by the pope, Novak's formidable spiritual leader.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33244 (789 words)

	The Avalon Project : Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 18
		Thus, since the decision concerning war and peace is not a matter for the military, the military has to accept the decisions made by the political leadership, decisions which have a binding material effect on the military authorities.
		war, his responsibility in respect to a strategic plan must be confined to the plan as such, but not to the possible origin of the war for which the strategic plan was worked out.
		The Prosecution wants to make a war criminal out of this untiring prophet for international understanding and peace, who is charged with having militarized youth and prepared it, bodily and psychologically, for wars of aggression and of having worked against peace.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/07-17-46.htm (12594 words)

	War on terror being used to trample rights: experts -DAWN - National; 26 May, 2004
		He said Islamic laws denounced the use of excessive force even in a war situation, and clearly stated that even the prisoners of wars and those combatants who were no longer involved in an armed conflict were to be protected.
		He said Geneva Convention, Hague Convention and UN laws provided protection to the victims of armed conflicts and limited the use of force in a situation where non-combatants were likely to bear the brunt in terms of loss of life and destruction of property and crops along with army regulars.
		He said even those combatants who had slung their rifles and had decided to call it a day were supposed to be protected under the Geneva convention regardless of the fact if they were known to have committed war crimes in the past.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/26/nat19.htm (517 words)

	The Deceptions of War
		According to the “Random House Dictionary of the English Language” deception is “the act or state of deceiving or the state of being deceived.” The synonyms are: trick, stratagem, ruse, wile, hoax, imposture, subterfuge, and treachery.
		Since psychology is the “science of the mind or of mental states and processes; The science of human nature”, then psychological-warfare involves attacking of the mental state of the enemy.
		Germany, throughout the Second World War, had a committee designed solely to deceive the people and to tell them lies so that the people would be proud of their country, and would fight and die gladly.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/essays/cot/t0w26deceptionwar.htm (1739 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - The Sacking of Louvain - Official German Statement, August 1914
		Written by German Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow, the statement took issue with the suggestion that German soldiers deliberately destroyed the city; rather, the city was devastated in consequence of a widescale revolt by the city's Belgian populace - an act that ran counter to the conventions of war, suggested von Jagow.
		In the present case, then, there is no question of a measure of defence in conformity with international law, nor an admissible ruse of war; but it was a traitorous attack on the part of the civilian population.
		This attack is the more unjustifiable because it has been proved that it had been planned long before and was to have taken place at the same time as the sortie from Antwerp.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/louvain_germanstatement.htm (682 words)

	MEMRI research cited in the media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arab leaders publicly protest the war, even as some of them cooperate with the Americans and British by letting their forces use land or airspace as staging areas for battle.
		And, while many Americans may dismiss war protesters in the United States as a distinct minority, that is not the case in the Middle East, analysts say.
		It is a war waged by America as an expression of its arrogance and its desire to control the oil as a means of controlling the world economy."
	www.memri.org /bin/media.cgi?ID=45203 (675 words)

	village voice > news > Broadcast Ruse by Ian Urbina
		In fact, some of the most impressive spin maneuvers occurred during the Gulf War in 1991, the lessons of which are particularly pertinent as the U.S. again gears up.
		Before Congress gave the green light to go to war, seven of the main pro-war senators brought up the baby-incubator allegations as a major component of their argument for passing the resolution to unleash the bombers.
		Ultimately, the motion for war passed by a narrow five-vote margin.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0246/urbina.php (1464 words)

	Fears of War - DigsBoards
		I'm afraid that a corrupt administration will use the ruse of a constant war of terror to kill innocent people around the world in the name of oil and its twin, money.
		I didn't want to go to war, but as I posted, "I feel we have no choice" and thought that if we were going to be attacked again, by terrorists, Iraq, Al-Queda, whomever, we needed to stop it.
		Where he was narrating a slideshow, which showed pictures of him peeking under his desk in the Oval Office, and he jokes, "Nope, no weapons under here." Around the time that that was in the news (albeit very briefly), a kid from my state was killed in Iraq.
	www.digsmagazine.com /ubb/Forum5/HTML/000704-8.html (4416 words)

	WoW -> Info -> Under Development -> The War of the Shifting Sands
		Shiromar looked up at the sky and remembered a time when the sun had been eclipsed by dragons; when the Qiraji and silithid flooded over the legions of night elves in seemingly eternal waves; when hope seemed but a shadow.
		It seemed as if none would survive those terrible months; yet here she was, standing before the sacred barrier that saved their lives all those years ago, during the War of the Shifting Sands...
		Through the chaos she glimpsed the murky, behemoth shadow of the Qiraji general not far away, slashing and reaping through rows of night elves like a harvester shearing wheat.
	worldofwarcraft.com /info/underdev/1p9/shiftingsands.html (2645 words)

	War On Terrorism is a Ruse/Secret Pentagon Climate Report : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In other words the conservative elites are going after control the strategic oil supply throughout the world in order that they will have the fuel that their tanks, helicopters, fighter jets and troop transports will require to seaze control of what remains of the collapsing food and fresh water supply.
		The report coins the term "Climate Wars." This report was prepared by a man with close ties to Donald Rumsfeld.
		Maybe now that the secret Pentagon report has been leaked we can pull back of the ultra violence the Bush regime has unleashed on the world and get to the business of behaving like a community that cares about each other and the very planet that gives us the life we live.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2004/02/1680471.php (738 words)

	Bride of War
		Although the land was filled with war, it had not touched the tiny secluded village in the mountains.
		It was soon after this that a war was completed and the War God returned to reside deep within the heart of his temple and replenish his energy.
		He banished the tribe of barbarians saying they would never have his blessing for a successful war again because of the attempted rape by one of their number.
	www.kikotei.net /gw/fics/dena/bride_of_war.html (5065 words)

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