CSPAN3 Lectures In History November 9, 2014
Racial extermination. My first question for the class would then be, what is the purpose of laws of war . Can we get a philosophy on this . Whatever you want. Laws of war. It is to establish a baseline of expectations for your soldiers, practical value. If you follow those laws, they will do the same for you and also be more inclined to surrender and be more merciful to your people when they are captured. What is interesting about them is you do not really see them practice on either side in the pacific war as much as you do in other theaters of world war ii. Why . A good question, sir. That i...