The Rules of war ALL Soldiers MUST OBEY 

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Rule 1: No cheating Rule 2: No spawncamping Rule 3: Don't be toxic Rule 4: No teaming

Those rules about not shooting medics or temporary medics don't work in Ukraine, on either side. They drone each other while the wounded or dead are being carried.

The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. -captain barbossa

The thing about the "rules of war" is they only matter when both sides believe in them and follow them. Everything is fair in war as the law has no bearing on the drive to survive and when it comes down to the bottom line people will do ANYTHING to survive.

As an Iraq combat medic i can confirm the enemy didnt care or repect the rules of war. It was advantageous for them not to. No one in my unit wore the red cross and all of us were armed. No point in following medic rules if the enemy won't

Every military: "We follow the rules, honest as they are a guide." It honestly falls on the individuals to police their conflict.

Meanwhile Japan: extra points for hitting a bullseye on that Red Cross

"All soldiers must obey" Haha, that's a good one. You can't find a war, without these rules being broken. by all sides.

theres alot of war crimes that are swept under the rug an old guy from my job was a veteran and he told me they abuse these rules anyway. He told me that you arent supposed to use anti tank guns on people because the rule says it can only be used on equipment, this dude told me their sergeants say aim for their tool belts to kill them because they are considered equipment.

It's not an argument for rules to not exist, but All of the rules of war have pretty much been broken in every war. Since policing is always done by the victor, it's by nature of selective. The whole system seems ridiculous.

Rules of War: Exist WW2 Japan: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that

"We're good guys, so screw those rules!" - every war criminal, ever

Can you guys cover the history of guerrilla warfare tactics?

Love the Agent 47 reference when talking about disguises. Adding the garrote is a nice touch.

19:31 It was nice of Agent 47 to make an appearance 😂 Just need that subtle head tilt

Lol i love how when the child soldier character was being sentenced to execution he just had his arms crossed and rolled his eyes as if his father was lecturing him

"I don't believe in human rights!" *PHONK INTENSIFIES!!!*

The term “alls fair in war” has been around in some derivative for much longer than any signed convention

A list of objectives for me to commit when i get drafted.

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." ~William T. Sherman

I imagine the conventions get quite messy when a country invades a country with an armed civillian populace.

I loved the story in 5:07 that 2 paratrooper medics using a French Church as a medical station and both sides respected the laws of war in the West. There was a moment when a higher up used his rank to give orders to the medics. Bluntly put, remove themselves from their station and move to the front. It's said that a medic do have ranks, but are removed out of chain of command when doing their job. Here's a Vid that explains every action from the drop to situations and what they did after the war until they died: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X9kICMQ6DEM.html&ab_channel=Yarnhub

The story of the 2 medics using the Church makes me tear up for some reason every time. The idea these men earned such respect that whenever they were seen running to an injured soldier both sides would cease fire so they could run by safely

Could you guys maybe make some video about wars in Yugoslavia?it would be epic

Trying to apply rules to war feels like trying to baptize the cat

YOOO A SIMPLE HISTORY VID ON MY BIRTHDAY LETS GOOOOOO

Very good content!

I think the hollow point is more needed for when on ships or submarines to prevent sinking if used to defend ship but not sure what other uses would warrant a hollowpoint in war vs regular bullets.

Thanks for these videos I think everyone likes them

There’s a reason why officers don’t wear bright rank and we don’t salute them down range.

Navy coorpmen for Marines are generally assumed by all as combatants.

15:34 the rifle in this shot cycles the bolt magically lol

War rules Rule 1: no teaming Rule2 no killing or injured or medics Rule 3: cheats will be disabled

Medics and Clergy can be retained by the Detaining Power and perform their duties for POWs of their nation.

Remember, it ain’t that simple without the history!!!

should mention the german soldier told to play piano and to be executed after he was done and he went on to play for like 22 hours before collapsing with a sob being congratulated by the russians then executed.

medics - A medic carrying out or seen to be carrying out offensive actions was considered a viable target. this means a medic seen in an assault, firing their weapon, could be targeted and shot. This is something that got the US in trouble a few times, as some medics would run up "firing" on an enemy position while trying to reach a downed soldier. ambulances, medical ships, and hosptials may NOT be used for offensive operations, may not stockpile arms, and may not be used for the transfer of active weapons or personal. - UK pulled this bs in both ww1 and ww2. they didn't like that a medical ship would carry wounded back to england, then head back to europe empty... so they decided, lets just load it with meds and soldiers and send it back full. This stripped not just that ship but any ship of that nation of protections as any could be carrying supplies and combat personal on offensive operations. This issue came up with red cross, as without telling the red cross, one country smuggled spy devises in via red cross packages, including a radio hidden inside a cross. This pissed the red cross off because it removed the neutrality of their entire agency.

One thing, incindary tools are allowed in war unless you use it on someone. (Or any way not used for path clearing that’s not good.)

Petition for Simple History to cover the first and second Chechen Wars or the Yugoslav Wars

Can't forget the relatively unknown incident known as the Biscari massacre. American soldiers gunned down a bunch of unarmed Italian and German POWs. Some say the soldiers were acting on the orders of General Patton.

Interesting fact, the XM-25 smart grenade launcher from the US Army was removed from service because any grenade under 30mm is considered an exploding bullet

It appears the BRIT “specials” didn’t follow these rules where I grew up lad.

I’m very curious WHERE you would even start with writing “rules for war” If everyone agreed upon rules would you have a war❔

i live in swizerland and geniva is called genf here it realy cunfused me at first BTW thanks for notifying me that shooting non combatans is iligal was about to do some "stuff".

Rules are written by winners and i think people do everything to win.

Releasing captured medics sounds like a huge risk. what’s stopping them from giving intel to their own forces? Might as well use them to treat the other POWs.

15:34 look at the arisaka rifle with the bayonet, it cycles the bolt by itself

When they started talking about explosives with non-detectable fragments, I thought about the bombs from the movie Swordfish; those bombs with the ball bearings

The medic one along with the others except for the child soldiers will be ignored by people who play team based shooters for advantages

The Japanese infantry men were not taught to distinguish between medics and other soldiers. They saw every enemy soldier as valid targets. According to oral records, the soldiers were unaware of the Geneva Convention.

27:10 this rule goes if i've got it right, One may not use exploding bullet or another direct fire explosive against human being directly. how ever hand grenade like many other grenades does not fill this direct fire category. explosive large caliber ammunition against vehicles is allowed such as anti-aircraft and anti-armour (or anti-tank)

15:35 the rifle reloads itself. Damn ghost guns on the field

Marcus Luttrell explains this perfectly imo

These are more suggestions than rules

27:24 I know it shouldn’t be funny but I love how you guys blurred out the poor man facing four 20mm(?) cannons.

Question; is there rules or restrictions regarding use of animal or treatment of animals? (Ex. Using an animal reservation as means for operations, or not using certain animals in warfare). Unavoidably, in action warfare, the practice of bombings, especially that in natural geographical locations may impose the risk of permanent destruction of animal shelter or animals themselves.

Please do a video about the Ilya Muromets, a revolutionary military and commercial aircraft from WW1 Russia that had great potential but was gone too soon from circumstances.

The IDF could learn a thing or two from this video or perhaps its an achievement checklist just like in GTA.

yep. in nam my uncles chopper got shot down he was part of a medical unit and was a field medic. they really didn't care the viet kong. makes me sick. that day lost 6 injured soldiers and 4 of 5 medics. by sum act of god my uncle was the only one that survived. fell about 50ft out of the chopper when it got hit. he almost died him self. but there was a group of us marines that saw it get shot down and they ran over to see if any one was alive,

Rules of war/engagement are basically “guidelines.” The losing side will do anything to win, likely breaking rules of warfare. The winning side often breaks rules of war because the victor writes the history books.

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People in the comments (and common people) need to understand that questioning and undermining the importance of the Geneva conventions and the HL doesn't help anywhere. Yes sure most of the times the law doesnt get respected and there arent proportional repercussions but the amount of lives that have been saved and helped by the ICRC is immense. There are actual people out there on the conflict zones that risk their lives so they can help both combatants and non-combatants, yeah the media won't show it because a hospital getting bombed on a front page sells more than 1000 people getting food and water on a daily basis so that they can keep on living. What about the times when IHL actually worked? What about the guns that have been banned (dum dum bullets, tear gas, mines carefully demarcated etc.) ? It's so easy to question something that doesnt properly work inside your peaceful little neighborhood, but a step to the right direction demands reinforcement and expansion of the humanitarian law, because it CAN work and we have seen it many times. PS. Keep in mind that it's a fairly new law that started on the Battle of Solferino, only on 1864. Urban law still doesn't work well enough and it is centuries old.

1:50 there's a layering issue between the second soldier's hat/helmet thing and the bottom half of the third enemy soldier.

“You should be ashamed of your military honor!” Theodore Roosevelt

There are no "Rules of war" the application of a rule would mean that there is a detracting sanction. Thus far no such sanctions exist. Many counties have committed crimes, but those are far and away from being a rule of war. Just freaking level an entire country and find out how much these rules apply.

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tank veiw ports evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) cast vs welded vs rivited tank armor 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war how were 17th centry sailing ships build types of bombs lunched by drones comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

Is there a video about the Battle of Khalkhin Gol or Soviet-Japanese War?

Ahh yes "Geneva suggestions" or "geneva to-do checklist"

"History is written by the victor" General Shepherd

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i am sure they all will follow these at all times

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Einstein 1949

Japan: We signed it just to ignore it

Japan : wait that wasn't a to-do list?

25:55 I think being blind was the least of that guy’s worries

Russians: What rules?

Collective punishment seems more like a strategy nowadays than a war crime.

It was actually Benedict Arnold that told Daniel Morgan “that man is a nuisance to the cause. He must be taken out” or something along those lines.

"gentleman as far as I'm concerned there's only 3 rules of war" 1.don't torture the enemy that has surrender. 2.innocents shouldn't be targeted. 3 Do not spare anyone(Adolf Was spared and look what happened)

Clearly mark land mine area.😅 Not just non combatants and civilian can avoid the area, including the enemy soldiers.

15:33 ghost was bout to end that man

Geneva Convention ? More like Geneva Suggestion

I prefer the term "War bingo", first one to fill the board wins!

@29:24 If I was a military commander...The only time I would authorize the use of cluster munitions is against OpFor airbase runways. Alot of little destructions of a runway is alot harder to fix than one big hole from a 500lb bomb. Other than that there really is no legit use for cluster munitions in mordern warfare

In CALL of duty IS more like "Geneva convention more like Geneva suggestions "💀

Japan in ww2: "Im gona ignore all that bs"

Israel does exactly the opposite of every rule explained.

15:35 the dead soldiers rifle plays a reloading animation

1:58 second to first soldier on the left has a overlapping enemy soldier in the helmet.

If a war crime happens in the woods and no one survives who can report it, did a war crime even happen?

Japanese: Is that red cross for a primary targets?

Don't kill medics. It's against the Geneva convention, Japanese Empire: How about I do anyway.

11:35 if the target has a man-bun...he is OFF LIMITS

How many of these rules dose Hamas follow?

I never knew you couldn't use higher caliber rounds that you stated... I've committed so many war crimes in video games...

A lot of it just gets ignored anyway... like, there're no repercussions. Whether it's the Russians targeting civilian populated areas in Ukraine, Hamas taking civilian hostages or Israel shelling civilians... Also, torture is counter-productive, even if it wasn't immoral. You're FAR more likely to get actionable intel from a POW you treat with respect than you are a POW you torture to gather information - not to mention the fact that if you have a reputation for treating prisoners well your enemy is more likely to surrender than they are if they think they'll be tortured if they're captured. Especially if they're in a conscripted force, or were put onto the battlefield against their will in the first place. Like... imagine you're forced into combat, and you know that if you surrender you'll be taken somewhere safe, fed well and treated respectfully, vs if you surrender you know you'll spend months - possibly years - of your life being tortured and broken... in which instance would you surrender, and which instance would you fight to the death?

I was playin with the like button for a bit 😂

Setting rules to murder is an exercise in futility. Only the winner at the end will enforce them.

Meanwhile, Israel be checking this list to see which war crime they have not yet committed