Of course

Submitted by Lars Nielsen (Denmark), Apr 6, 2015 at 15:17

Of course mr. Pipes is right, when stipulating: " Never initiate fighting unless prepared to do what is needed to win. But this rule does not only apply to deciding use of ground troops or not.

If You engage in guerilla warfare, it is necessary to protect those in the local population, who collaborate with You, better than the guerillas protect their collabators, and retaliate harder on guerilla collaborators, than the guerillas retaliate on your collaborators.

Which is hardly possible without breaking the geneva rules.

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