Section 6B Law Of Armed Conflict

Question 1

The law of armed conflict arises from civilized nations humanitarian desire to lessen the effects of conflicts. It tries to restore peace and what?

Answer 1

Protects combatants and noncombatants from unecessary suffering.

Safeguards the basic rights of civilians, POWs, the wounded and the sick.

Tries to keep the conflicts from degenerating into savagery and brutality.

Question 2

DoDD 2311.01E, DoD Law of War Program, requires what’s from all military departments?

Answer 2

Appropriately training all forces in LOAC

Designing a program to ensure LOAC observance and prevent LOAC violations

Completing a legal review of new weapons

Question 3

Law of Armed Conflict training is a treaty obligation of the US under provision of who?

Answer 3

Geneva convention

Question 4

Who doesn’t receive specialized training for LOAC addressing unique issues they may encounter?

Answer 4

Engineers

Question 5

What type of international law is based on practices that nations have come to see as legally binding and establishes many of the oldest rules governing the conduct of military operations in armed conflict?

Answer 5

Customary

Question 6

Who must observe US LOAC obligations?

Answer 6

All persons subject to US laws

Question 7

Which article of the constitution states that treaty obligations of the US are the “supreme law of the land”?

Answer 7

Article VI (6)

Question 8

Military personnel, civilians and contractors authorized to accompany the armed forces in combat who do not follow the LOAC when planning and executing combat operations are subject to what punishment?

Answer 8

Being held criminally liable for war crimes and court martialed under the UCMJ

Question 9

Which LOAC principle permits the use of only the degree of regulated force not prohibited by the laws of war that obtains the enemies partial or complete submission with the least expenditure of life, time and physical resources?

Answer 9

Military necessity

Question 10

Attacks must be limited to military objectives according to which LOAC principle?

Answer 10

Military necessity

Question 11

Which LOAC principle requires defenders to separate military targets form civilians and civilian objects as much as feasible?

Answer 11

Distinction

Question 12

Which LOAC principle requires military planners to avoid or minimize civilian losses to the extent consistent with military necessity?

Answer 12

Proportionality

Question 13

What LOAC principle states the unnecessary suffering, prohibits employing any kind or degree of force not necessary for the purposes of war?

Answer 13

Humanity

Question 14

What combat weapon is banned under the LOAC?

Answer 14

Expanding hollow point bullets

Question 15

What lawful weapon may be used unlawfully in war?

Answer 15

Rifles

Question 16

The LOAC principle of chivalry permits lawful ruses such as what?

Answer 16

Camouflage
False radio signals
Mock troop movements

Question 17

What does the principle of chivalry under the LOAC not permit?

Answer 17

Treacherous attempts to injure the enemy

Question 18

How many treaties are there of the Geneva conventions of 1949 that govern the treatment of wounded and sick forces, POWs and civilians during war or armed conflict?

Answer 18

4

Question 19

What conventions distinguished between combatants, noncombatants and civilians?

Answer 19

Geneva

Question 20

Members of which LOAC combatant category are authorized by government authority or the LOAC to engage in hostilities and maybe members of a regular armed force or a militia?

Answer 20

Combatants

Question 21

Combatants are immune from prosecution for their belligerent acts if they are what?

Answer 21

Authorized by a sovereign state and act in accordance with the LOAC

Question 22

Under the LOAC a combatant is commanded by a person responsible for subordinates and

Answer 22

Has fixed distinctive emblems recognizable at a distance

Carries arms openly

Conducts combat operations according to the LOAC

Question 23

Under the LOAC who is not authorized to engage in hostilities as may not be attacked?

Answer 23

Noncombatants

Question 24

Noncombatants include who?

Answer 24

Permanent medical personnel and chaplains

Question 25

Who participates in hostilities without authorization by a state involved in a conflict?

Answer 25

Unlawful combatants

Question 26

Can unlawful combatants be harmed?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

Is there is doubt about which LOAC category an individual fall under, the person shall receive the protections of the Geneva prisoner of war convention until when?

Answer 27

Their status is determined

Question 28

What personnel is critical to determining the propriety of targets and the choice of weapons when planning an attack?

Answer 28

Judge advocate
Intelligence
Operations

Question 29

According to LOAC where may enemy military aircraft not be attacked or destroyed?

Answer 29

Neutral airspace or territory

Question 30

An enemy civilian aircraft or medical aircraft cannot be lawfully attacked if what?

Answer 30

If it approaches enemy territory or a combat zone and needs a summons to land

Question 31

Under LOAC the defense is “I was only following orders” generally accepted by war crime tribunals?

Answer 31

NOT ACCEPTABLE

Question 32

What are illegal acts justified as a last resort to stop illegal acts first committed by the adversary called?

Answer 32

Reprisals

Question 33

Who may authorize US forces to make a reprisals?

Answer 33

President

Question 34

Air Force members must report apparent LOAC violations of who to their commanders?

Answer 34

Enemy
Allies
US armed forces

Question 35

An allegation of LOAC violations involving a US commander may not be reported to who?

Answer 35

FBI agents

Question 36

What ensures that force is used according to national policy goals, requirements and rule of law?

Answer 36

The rules of engagement (ROE)