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These are very cool. Especially the ones that appear to be natural features. Unfortunately, my first though upon seeing military installations camouflaged as c
by btrautsc 6y ago
These are very cool. Especially the ones that appear to be natural features.
Unfortunately, my first though upon seeing military installations camouflaged as cabins, barns, homes - that gives an invading enemy a good excuse to target civilian structures...
- gnyman 6y agoI had the same thought, I even assumed there would be some international wartime law against it. But turns out it's apparently ok according to this study I found from US Naval College > Conventional IHL (international humanitarian law), then, indicates that at least one form of disguising a military object as a civilian object—camouflage—is a permissible ruse of war, not a prohibited act of perfidy. Page 521 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42550238.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42550238.pdf