{"id":28327,"date":"2012-01-15T10:33:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2012-01-15T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T14:33:32","slug":"experts-troops-need-more-law-of-land-warfare-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28327","title":{"rendered":"“Experts”: troops need more law of land warfare training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stars & Stripes<\/a> reprints an LA Times article in which the reporter quoted some people she calls “experts” who say that the troops need need more training on the laws of land warfare. Unless the intent is to make the troops all lawyers, I don’t see how it’s possible to give them more training, or what kind of training they’d need.<\/p>\n

I remember that the very first class we had in basic training, after we learned how to march, sort of, was on the Code of Conduct and the Law of Land Warfare. We learned that the Law of Land Warfare was nothing more than the Golden Rule, that we weren’t allowed to do anything to the enemy that we wouldn’t want done to ourselves or to our families. <\/p>\n

And the training didn’t stop there…we had semi-annual classes which were annotated on our 2-1 military records and in our training records in the orderly room. Those records were inspected and made accountable to the division commander.<\/p>\n

How many of us have read about US troops fighting from behind civilians or attacking the enemy from Mosques or churches? If these so-called experts want to train someone in the law of land warfare, they shoudl focus their energies on our enemies, all of whom, historically, have broken the rules throughout our history, back to the French and Indians.<\/p>\n

The article focuses on Haditha and My Lai. The troops in Haditha, according to all accounts were forced into an impossible situation of defending themselves from an enemy who had used civilians as shields. There was no intentional crime there. And last I checked, none of the partiipants have been convicted of a crime at Haditha, much to the obvious disappointment to the “experts”.<\/p>\n

At My Lai was an anomaly – Lt Calley should have known better than to think his commanders intended for him to wipe out civilians. No amount of training can get the stupid out of some people. The same goes for thse marines in their urination video. They knew what they were doing was wrong and that they needed to keep it from their superiors or they’d be punished. There was no directive encouraging that behavior, nor was there a climate of acceptance.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to note that the “experts” all teach law and none of them have any experience in land warfare, so if you “follow the money”, they have a vested interest in the military hiring them to teach law to the troops, of course, that’s their recommendation. The Law of Land Warfare is common sense treatment of our enemies and the people caught up in warfare…you all know how to treat people, so what the hell good is wasting more training time to teach common sense? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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