obviously strategic issues important, but w/o a focus on criminal aspects, the crimes are easily banalized.
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Twitter prob not right format for this discussion but if you have time, please elaborate, not sure what you mean by 'banalized'
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well, historically, the strategic issues were those that people focused on most, until rise of IHL and human rights movements
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say, post-WW2, but arguably began in 19th century
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but the problem is that divorcing strategy of conflict from crimes of conflict is that an excessive focus on strategic issues
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can easily lead public and policymakers to downgrade the human rights dimensions, which plays into hands of more violent actors.
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I mean, I do think that human rights activism has depoliticized conflict in really damaging ways--if that's your point I agree
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as in, depoliticized responses to it.
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Not every state capable of buying/using precision munitions too.
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Part of the reason the US keeps losing wars is forgetting war inevitably includes dying and killing, including the innocent.
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