Right on. To add: Soldiers follow rules of engagements. These are direct orders from the Government. Soldiers are NOT to follow illegal orders. For example, it is illegal in Canada to use deadly force just to protect property. There is no "comply or die". The Serbs knew NATO rules of engagement. They knew they could steal whole convoys of food or help and NATO could not to a dammed thing about it. Same thing in Yougoslavia: Park a civilian car on a bridge and dumb Canadians could not bomb it. The rules of engagements are a legal document and it is signed. No politician would ever want their name on one.
Right on. To add: Soldiers follow rules of engagements. These are direct orders from the Government. Soldiers are NOT to follow illegal orders. For example, it is illegal in Canada to use deadly force just to protect property. There is no "comply or die". The Serbs knew NATO rules of engagement. They knew they could steal whole convoys of food or help and NATO could not to a dammed thing about it. Same thing in Yougoslavia: Park a civilian car on a bridge and dumb Canadians could not bomb it. The rules of engagements are a legal document and it is signed. No politician would ever want their name on one.