• psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Hypothetically speaking, how much time spent at a training camp is necessary for one to be categorized as a military target / enemy combatant? I don’t know how the conventions work.

    • Talentless Sculptor@lemmy.world
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      Essentially, as soon as you have signed a contract to join a nation’s armed forced as a combatant, you are one and can be fought as such. Generally speaking you can be engaged in all contexts unless you are actively doing three things: surrendering, bailing out of a plane using a parachute as an emergency(not dropping as part of a paratrooper assault) or if you are in the process of being rescued from a shipwreck.

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        1 day ago

        True for targetted assassinations but anyone on the training/military grounds is a valid target as it’s not like you can go review their each individual contracts to confirm this. You just destroy the entire base that spawns orcs into your lands.

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          Even targeted strikes on individual combatant (generals and other officers) are not considered war crimes. If you have enough reason to think that a person is an enemy combatant (they carry weapons and are dressed in the uniform of a belligerent enemy nation) you may engage them specficically.