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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Stephen Harding"  wrote in message news:10oc0cf$3q57l$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   America's first war was an undeclared naval war, the Quasi-War with   
   France (1798-1800).  It was not a declared war by Congress, although   
   they did authorize limited actions against the French.   
      
   I suspect in this age of more modern weaponry there will be no more   
   officially declared wars by Congress.  Hostilities happen too quickly   
   and are usually more limited in scope with countries able to deny any   
   responsibility for initializing an attack.   
      
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   Our nuclear defense is and must be based on the assumption of no warning   
   except from our satellites and radars.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907   
   "The First Hague Conference came from a proposal on 24 August 1898 by   
   Russian Tsar Nicholas II."   
      
   The history of the Laws of War is the history of avoiding them, beginning   
   with the Cruiser Rules that WW1 U-Boats couldn't comply with for lack of   
   room for prisoners and the risk of Q-ships.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant   
   Francs-Tireurs (free shooters) are individuals or small bands of snipers or   
   saboteurs of the Franco-Prussian War. Partisans are groups of them, active   
   in German controlled areas of France, Russia and the Balkans during WW2.   
   T.E. Lawrence led them in WW1. They dress as civilians and are usually   
   treated like bandits or spies.   
      
   Unarmed invaders avoid the legal definitions of belligerents or unlawful   
   combatants though they are still criminals.   
      
   https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/415733-on-unarmed-invasions/   
   "The only way to protect freedom and help the poor of our era is for   
   nation-states to retain and protect their internal integrity. If they do not   
   do this, no reason for the unarmed invasions to continue could be given   
   since, once overwhelmed with new peoples, every state would be reduced to   
   the level of the places from whence the contemporary unarmed invaders come   
   in the first place."   
      
   Hypocritical libs are denying that inconvenient laws apply to them but still   
   demand all legal protections.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)