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Does Afghanistan even get covered by that stuff since no formal declaration of war has been made according to Hague Convention III?
by __alexs 15y ago
Does Afghanistan even get covered by that stuff since no formal declaration of war has been made according to Hague Convention III?
- sharpneli 15y agoIANAL but that has some problems. First of all the convention mandates 'declaration of war' in a sense that you have to tell someone you're attacking. If it was skipped then it was against the part of the convention mandating such notification. Secondly the other parts of the convention do not talk about war as a set of specific circumstances (e.g requiring declaration of war) but just hostilities regardless on how they originated. So by skipping the declaration of war one simply breaks one additional part of the convention, the one mandating the declaration.
- thisrod 15y agoI understand that changed when the UN was formed. Its member states aren't permitted to start wars, period.
- anamax 15y agoDoes it matter whether both parties are signatories?
- JamisonM 15y agoNo
- jcurbo 15y agoThe US follows the Hague Convention and other 'rules of war' regardless of if the other side does or not.