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Questions about a conflict or conflicts either inside a country (commonly known as civil war) or between 2 or more countries (more commonly known as war)
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What happens if a country signs mutual defense treaties with several countries who later go ...
Most mutual defense treaties are very explicitly defense treaties. They cover the case where a third nation attacks one or both of the signatories. It is rather difficult for two countries to attack e …
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Is there a precedent for a country attacking another and later admitting their casus belli w...
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, if you consider the US statements official enough to count as an admission/apology, and if you count the intensification of the war as a "new" attack.
It is not a complet …
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How do landlocked countries, like Ethiopia, deal with trade?
Generally speaking, yes. It would not be a blockade, which means warships in interational waters stopping neutral traffic. Eritrea can decide if they want to trade with Ethiopia or not. Ethiopia has f …
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Is NATO discriminate to take action against any nation?
NATO is not a humanitarian organization.
NATO is the collective defense organization by various "North Atlantic" countries. The purpose is to defend (Article 5) the territory of the NATO members north …
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Why don't attackers in war target government buildings as much as they could?
The laws of war allow attacks which hit infrastructure as long as there is a military purpose and it is proportionate to the likely civilian damage. It is legal to attack bridges, factories, and also …
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Who is benefiting from the Ukrainians and the Russians killing each other?
Russia's war against Ukraine is contributing to a global economic crisis. The outcome of such a crisis, and the ultimate beneficiaries, are hard to predict with any clarity.
President Putin seemed to …
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According to the Geneva Convention, what must a nation do to Prisoners of War if it doesn't ...
Feed them as well as the own troops. That section starts with
Article 25
Prisoners of war shall be quartered under conditions as favourable as those for the forces of the Detaining Power who are bill …
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Why does Ukraine hurry to reject the possibility of the rocket missile that hit Poland being...
The world is functioning in what is sometimes dubbed the 24-hour news cycle. What is on the headlines today will be old news tomorrow. Being at war, Ukraine seems to feel the need to get their positio …
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How common is it for wars of aggression to end without a counter-invasion to the territory o...
The Falklands War. This was, of course, simplified by the border being a sea border.
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Why is sending troops different from sending military equipment?
International law is mostly based on precedent.
There is the precedent that selling arms is not, by itself, an act of war. This was e.g. supported by cash and carry during the early phases of World W …
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Threats by MRBMs / IRBMs in the 1960s and now
The big advantage of ICBMs is that they are intercontinental. With that comes a relatively high speed, which complicates intercepts, and long early warning time (for a missile) if the other side has s …
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Can war crimes ever be justified as self-defense?
The use of force by the military (to include properly organized insurgents) is measured by military necessity, distinction, and proportionality. An attack is illegal if
there is no military benefit t …
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What are the actual implications of MAD?
During the Cold War, MAD stood for Mutually Assured Ddestruction. That is, both superpowers (mutual) could be certain (assured) that their arsenals would inflict widespread destruction on the enemy, e …
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Why don't leader of waring factions fight each other instead of asking the soldiers to do th...
The concept of trial by combat did exist in the past, for lawsuits and also for other conflicts. It did rely on a society which sees the leader and the country as the same (l'etat, c'est moi, as ascr …
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Which "coalition" countries have troops in Iraq and how many?
Germany has about 90 troops in northern Iraq (German news report from today).
The UK has less than 400 troops in Iraq (BBC news report, 400 troops in the Middle East, an unspecified number of troops a …
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