 Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.  International Law Studies - Page 118by Naval War College (U.S.) - 1904Full view - About this book
 | George Jotham Hagar - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912
...Insurrection, civil war, rebellion. The following is a summary of the most important instructions : Military necessity admits of all direct destruction...of other persons whose destruction is incidentally "unavoidable" in the armeil contests of war. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913
...General Orders, No. 100, April 24, 1863, id. 155. "14. Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those...of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of tlie war ; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and... | |
 | United States. War Department. General Staff - Military law - 1914 - 221 pages
...not forbidden by the modern laws and customs of war. , . 12. What military necessity admits of. — Military necessity admits of all direct destruction...of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war ; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and of... | |
 | United States. General Staff Corps - 1914 - 225 pages
...are not forbidden by the modern laws and customs of war. 12. What military necessity admits of. — Military necessity admits of all direct destruction...of other persons whose destruction is Incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and of every... | |
 | Edward Douglas Armour, Edward B. Brown, Charles Elliott, Edward Gillis, Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy, Alfred Taylour Hunter, Bram Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915
...find a very different definition of ' Kriegsraison ' — " Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those...lawful according to the modern law and usages of war." (General Orders, No. 100, par. 14.) In the next rule (No. 15) the soldier is reminded that " Men who... | |
 | Naval War College (U.S.) - International law - 1915
...war purposes. (c) Military necessity under paragraph 3 of article 2 applies to actions immediately "indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to modern law and usages of war" and not of a nature "to make the return to peace unnecessarily difficult."... | |
 | World War, 1914-1918 - 1916
...Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field : Military necessity as understood by modern civilized nations consists in the necessity of those...lawful according to the modern law and usages of war. * * * As martial law is executed by military force, it Is incumbent upon those who administer it to... | |
 | James Alfred Moss - Military art and science - 1916 - 395 pages
...which are not forbidden by the modern laws and customs of war. (11) What military necessity admits of. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction...of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contests of war; it allows of the capturing of every armed enemy, and of every... | |
 | Albert Allis Hopkins - Military art and science - 1916 - 338 pages
...enemy's country of all those measures which nre indispensable to facilitate and assist in the conduct of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war. The preparation, therefore, must extend to an elaborate study of the resources of the home country... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1917
...thus defined by section 14 of General Order No. 100 : "Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those...lawful according to the modern law and usages of war." That portion of the civil and penal law suspended in the enemy's country subject to martial law, on... | |
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