David French
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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Let's put it that way.
Yeah, there are rules of war that have to be... Let's put it this way.
To say there are rules of war that have to be followed is a bit of an oversimplification because it requires a choice.
It requires...
international bodies.
It requires the United States or, say, Israel or combatants to comply with the laws of war.
So in the United States, we have statutory rules, laws passed by Congress that govern how our armed forces act in the field.
And so we absolutely have binding laws of war.
Other countries do not, but there are international systems that sometimes, though unfortunately not, always bring them to justice.
So there is such a thing as the law of armed conflict.
Gosh, we've got more than a thousand page Department of Defense law of armed conflict manual.
We have binding rules.
Soldiers go to jail when they violate the laws of armed conflict.
So they do exist.
They are very real, but they can't always be enforced everywhere against all combatants.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, a lot of people, when I say the things like the laws of war, the law of armed conflict, you'll sometimes see people kind of roll their eyes and say, well, the law of war is to win, or the law of war is to be lethal.
But it really overlooks why we have them.
I mean, this is the product of
really more than a thousand years, honestly, if you're sort of walking through human development of and how human beings have approached war.
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