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And when a power plant in a region is taken offline via conventional means? That isn't covered by the Current Laws of Land Warfare, why should a digital version
by steverb 10y ago
And when a power plant in a region is taken offline via conventional means? That isn't covered by the Current Laws of Land Warfare, why should a digital version be any different?
- zeveb 10y agoI think that it is covered by the laws of war: as long as the military benefit of attacking the power plant is sufficient to outweigh the collateral damage, it's legal. If you're wrong, and you lose, then you hang after the war is over.
- steverb 10y agoYou are correct. I should have said that it's not prohibited.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> And when a power plant in a region is taken offline via conventional means? That isn't covered by the Current Laws of Land Warfare While details of the context will matter, an attack on such a plant would potentially implicate any or all of Arts. 51-56 (exc. 53) of Protocol I to the 1949 Conventions (the US is not a party to Protocol I but had traditionally viewed it's terms as declarative of and redundant with pre-existing customary international law.)