The Military Thread

Watching BBC Special Forces Hell Week's 3rd episode.

Hell yes for my home country!

America's outdated Military

Okinawa to revoke approval for base relocation work on Tuesday

When will they learn?

BBC and CNN aren't heralding WW3 yet, so I assume the shootdown story was a farce.

Also, after the Ankara bombing by ISIS, Turkey has responded by....hitting the PKK some more.

Screwings yuo Turkey, yuo are worst NATO member.

Nah, worst NATO member is Luxembourg. I mean, how many troops did they even send to Afghanistan?

Are rebel groups in a country's civil war under the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions?

Nineteen, with an all-time high of ten in-country at any one time.

edited 12th Oct '15 8:45:12 AM by Achaemenid

Can't find numbers, but they were integrated into the Belgians.

Edit: Aah, that few.

edited 12th Oct '15 8:48:40 AM by TerminusEst

Luxembourg is responsible for the entire NATO AWACS fleet.

X4 If the UN sets up a court to prosecute people then they're covered, as the UN can declare jurisdiction. Otherwise it's iffy, as the treaties that make up the convention are between states.

edited 12th Oct '15 9:52:37 AM by Silasw

I assume you're talking about aircraft◊?

In other words, everyone will ignore the UN, unless the United States goes and enforces it.

Not really, for the UN to declare anything the Security Council would all have to agree, then anyone could drag people to a court, though I doubt anyone (including the US) would be interested in doing that.

Wish the UN had nothing to do with nations and all its members and Peacekeepers would have to forever revoke their citizenships. But I've always been a mercenary at heart.

They could establish their headquarters in international waters. Like a UN carrier group. Or a Megazeppelin. Or Antarctica!

A UN HQ on the moon, so we could call the UN peacekeepers LUNies.

edited 12th Oct '15 11:21:43 AM by AFP

Outer haven when?

Sorry for interrupting, but I got a question.

Is it a war crime to play dead? I do know for sure that if you pretend to be dead and then attack, it's definitely a war crime, but what about just playing dead until the enemy combatants go away?

Yeah that's fine I believe. Deception is allowed remember, even dressing as the enemy for espionage purposes is allowed.

Oh and clarification on stuff from before, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention specifically covers "Non-International Armed Conflict".

As for the UN, I say we just have the UN annex Switzerland and make that the global base, the EU can do the same with Luxenbourg for its central capital area.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

Speaking of Switzerland, I find it interesting how late its joining UN was compared to other countries.

They take neutrality seriously. That and they do stuff by referendum a lot, so it took until they could pass a referendum deciding to join for them to do it.

They're neutral. So there was probably plenty of arguments on, would it compromise its treasured neutrality.

Heh.

So neutral Swiss chemists have to move abroad to make any acid or base compound.

Yet another WWII question.

What do you call the fighters who are in the French Resistance? French partisans?

You could call them Partisans, Rebels, Resistance Fighters, or The Resistance. With or without French suffix. Partisan and The French Resistance were likely the most common.

edited 12th Oct '15 7:17:38 PM by TuefelHundenIV