HowardGilbert The core definition of "enemy combatant" has nothing to do with
battlefields. The term starts with the various groups designate by Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention, and before it the Hague Agreements. First, you have all members of the regular armed forces of an enemy country. This includes cooks, truck drivers, doctors, engineers, generals, and lots of other people far from
battlefields who have never engaged in combat. In the West, we refer to these people as "men and women in uniform," but uniforms are a Western...
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Geoffrey Corn
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