Methods of warfare | How does law protect in war? - Online casebook
“How does law protect in war?” promotes practice-based IHL teaching. Its contents are developed in partnership with academia and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ICRC. By continuing on this website, you agree to its terms and conditions. The tactics or strategy used in hostilities to defeat the enemy by using available information on him together with weapons, movement and surprise. International law has sanctioned the following principles regarding means and methods of warfare: Prohibited methods of warfare include perfidy, terror, starvation, reprisals against non-military objectives, and indiscriminate attacks, damage to the natural environment or to works and installations containing dangerous forces; ordering that there shall be no survivors; pillage; taking hostages; taking advantage of the presence of the civilian population or population movements to promote the conduct of hostilities; improper use of distinctive emblems and signs; and attacks on persons hors de comb