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Today in American Military History - 1864
The First Geneva Convention: 12 nations conclude a pact "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" while America was in the 4th year of our bloody civil war.
The First Geneva Convention: 12 nations conclude a pact "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" while America was in the 4th year of our bloody civil war.
First Geneva Convention - Wikipedia
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It's been around a good long while. Not always observed even by signatories.
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COL John McClellan
Yup! The conventions most commonly used now, and not acknowledged by some in Korea and Vietnam, were the ones after WWII in 1947/1949.
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