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Pentagon Revamps Law of War Manual to Protect Journalists

The guide, which originally compared correspondents to spies, now lauds “independent reporting,” but leaves unchanged other sections scholarly critics called inaccurate.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-revamps-law-of-war-manual-to-protect-journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

But the Defense Department’s overhaul of its Law of War Manual left unchanged other disputed sections that scholarly critics have called inaccurate and dangerous — including rules for weighing when it is lawful to fire on a military target even though civilians are present.

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