War Rules Quotes

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

It's true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an 'enemy state,' but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

And if he be taken in battle ... He shall be returned to his native land, in return for his price

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

Women, children, monks and other non-combatants are to be spared during war and no longer taken prisoner.

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

When I served on active duty in the United States Air Force, one of my duties was to teach the Law of War.

The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's not a laboratory for the left's social ideas or playgrounds. It is to kill people and break things, and the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules. And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules, and right now, Putin is setting the rules.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.