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2. First formalized rules/laws of war #GeneralOrder100 #grant
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp
3. Written by Francis Lieber, professor of history and poli sci @Columbia
4. 157 Articles that spelled out and restrained military actions #grant
5. Specified how civilians could be treated... #grant Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists...those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.
6. Formalized "military necessity" #grant
7. Art. 35.
Classical works of art, libraries, scientific collections, or precious instruments, such as astronomical telescopes, as well as hospitals, must be secured against all avoidable injury, even when they are contained in fortified places whilst besieged or bombarded.
Classical works of art, libraries, scientific collections, or precious instruments, such as astronomical telescopes, as well as hospitals, must be secured against all avoidable injury, even when they are contained in fortified places whilst besieged or bombarded.
8. #grant Art. 17.
War is not carried on by arms alone. It is lawful to starve the hostile belligerent, armed or unarmed, so that it leads to the speedier subjection of the enemy.
War is not carried on by arms alone. It is lawful to starve the hostile belligerent, armed or unarmed, so that it leads to the speedier subjection of the enemy.
9. Art. 16. #grant
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions....
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions....
10. Art. 19.
Commanders, whenever admissible, inform the enemy of their intention to bombard a place, so that the noncombatants, and especially the women and children, may be removed .... But it is no infraction of the common law of war to omit thus... #grant
Commanders, whenever admissible, inform the enemy of their intention to bombard a place, so that the noncombatants, and especially the women and children, may be removed .... But it is no infraction of the common law of war to omit thus... #grant
11. Further reading #grant
https://www.amazon.com/Military-Rules-Regulations-Code-Certification/dp/1412814766/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=lieber+code&qid=1590544117&s=books&sr=1-7
https://www.amazon.com/Military-Rules-Regulations-Code-Certification/dp/1412814766/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=lieber+code&qid=1590544117&s=books&sr=1-7
12. #grant https://www.amazon.com/D-H-Dilbeck/dp/1469659050/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=lieber+code&qid=1590544152&s=books&sr=1-8
13. #grant
https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History-ebook/dp/B005HF4DZG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lincoln%27s+code&qid=1590544184&s=books&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History-ebook/dp/B005HF4DZG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lincoln%27s+code&qid=1590544184&s=books&sr=1-1
