I want to talk briefly about the current U.S. doctrine. Conduct of the administration in a particular event, and a series of events actually. As everybody in the dais in the witness table is aware, The Department of Defense Law of War manual specifies that any order to kill shipwrecked persons [is] an illegal order [and] would constitute a war crime. It isn't suggested. There's a specific example to show, a clear cut example of what this entails in our own manual. (00:12–00:24)
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