ABSTRACT
Guerilla warfare in particular is permissible under the Hague Convention concerning the Rules and Usages of Land Warfare. International law, to be sure, has not caught up with the modern ‘refinements’ of warfare. It protects the population of occupied territories against the occupant, it protects the P.O.W. and the wounded against the captor, and it protects the fighting soldier against the use of certain weapons. The modern weapons of war play havoc with the protective devices of international law. After the Hague Convention was signed, and even before the Germans and Russians used their P.O.W.s and civilians for all types of missions, the principle had already been established; Allenby and Lawrence turned “the oppressed in Turkey” against the Turks in World War I.
