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Originally Posted by Rochard
As you pointed out, the very nature of warfare itself has dramatically changed. Governments and their armed forces can do a lot more damage and civilians get in the way. During WWII we carpet bombed entire cities, destroying them completely and killing the entire civilian population.
This is why we now have the Geneva Conventions.
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The Geneva Convention was first written in 1860 or so. Rules of warfare were common through out world history. We just chose to ignore them on a grand scale. And still do as the US opts out of a lot of that stuff like land mines.