text: Legal Considerations
  * Soldiers and Marines fight only enemy combatants.
  * Soldiers and Marines do not harm enemies who surrender. They disarm them and turn them over
  to their superiors.
  * Soldiers and Marines do not kill or torture enemy prisoners of war or detainees.
  * Soldiers and Marines collect and care for the wounded, whether friend or foe.
  * Soldiers and Marines do not attack medical personnel, facilities, or equipment.
  * Soldiers and Marines destroy no more than the mission requires.
  * Soldiers and Marines treat all civilians humanely.
  * Soldiers and Marines do not steal. They respect private property and possessions.
  * Soldiers and Marines do their best to prevent violations of the law of war.
  * Soldiers and Marines report all violations of the law of war to their superior.
  13-31. When working with host-nation or local friendly forces in a counterinsurgency, it is critical to both
  teach and enforce these rules among allies and friendly forces. Following the law of war is a critical
  component of counterinsurgency operations that directly supports the accomplishment of the strategic
  mission to defeat the insurgency and establish local rule by gaining the trust of the local civilian population,
  or at a minimum, enabling a local population to cease active support of an insurgency. Violations of the law
  of war have a direct and significant negative impact on the ability to conduct successful counterinsurgency
  operations.
  13-32. The law of war includes rules governing situations in which the military forces of one state occupy
  the territory of another. Occupation is not a transfer of sovereignty. It does, however, grant the occupying
  power the authority and responsibility to restore and maintain public order and safety. The occupying
  power must enforce, as much as possible, the laws in force in the host nation. One of the four Geneva
  Conventions of 1949—the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
  War—becomes a prominent source of law during occupation, as well as the Hague Convention IV
  Regulations of 1907.
  NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT
  13-33. The full body of the law of war only applies during international armed conflict. It does not apply
  during a non-international armed conflict. This does not mean no rules apply during a non-international
  armed conflict. For instance, the law of war principle of distinction still applies. It requires force to be
  directed at combatants and not innocent civilians, and a proportionality analysis is required when targeting
  combatants and military objectives if civilians or civilian objects may be impacted. Counterinsurgency
  operations are almost certain to be a feature of non-international armed conflict, the most common form of
  armed conflict today. During counterinsurgency operations, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions
  applies. Commanders must be aware of Common Article 3, and the basic protections that must be afforded
  to insurgents or others captured by U.S. forces, as well as the status of insurgents under the laws of the host
  nation.
  GENEVA CONVENTION, COMMON ARTICLE 3
  13-34. Although insurgencies can occur within the context of an international armed conflict, they are
  classically conflicts between states and non-state actors that are considered to be non-international armed
  conflicts.
  13-35. It bears emphasis, however, that one article contained in all four of the Geneva Conventions—
  Common Article 3—is specifically intended to apply to non-international armed conflicts. Common Article
  3 affords significantly fewer protections to combatants fighting in a non-international armed conflict than
  does the full body of the law of war in an applicable international armed conflict. However, it does set a
  simple baseline of humane protection, along with fundamental rules that reflect the principles captured in
  the broader law of war.
  13-36. Common Article 3 requires that in the case of armed conflict not of an international character (a
  non-international armed conflict) occurring in the territory of one of the high contracting parties to the