 | Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 542 pages
...save the country is paramount to all other considerations" (Art. 5); "Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable" (Art. 15); "The more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity" (Art. 29). af Jochnick... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 2005 - 88 pages
...exception, the principle Lieber enunciated continues to have influence, that military necessity permits the "direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable." 3 In February 1863 Lieber presented his draft to the committee. It was then printed with wide margins... | |
 | Larry May - 2007 - 11 pages
...securing the ends of war."14 The Lieber Code goes on to say that while military necessity "admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war, . . . [mjilitary necessity does not admit of cruelty."15 Thus, while military necessity may allow... | |
 | Howard M. Hensel - 2007 - 284 pages
...the modern law and usages of war".31 Elaborating, Article 15 stated, "Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contest of the war; ... it allows of all destruction of property, . . ,"32 In short, within the context... | |
 | 1917 - 674 pages
...be severely punished, and especially so if committed by officers. 15. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...to the hostile government, or of peculiar danger to thé captor; it allows of all destruction of property, and obstruction of the ways and channels of... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1912 - 182 pages
...Section I above). III. Rules governing conduct towards combatants. 1. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies...incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war (1863). 2. Retaliation, never as revenge, but only as means of protective retribution (1863). 3.... | |
 | 1906 - 498 pages
...war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies,...of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unawidable in the armed contests of the war. Ib., 41, par. 14-15. Even in bombardments it is now deemed... | |
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Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of the war... 
