FM 27-10 (W/ CHANGE-1), ARMY FIELD MANUAL 27-10, THE LAW OF LAND WARFARE (18-JUL-1956)

FM 27-10 (W/ CHANGE-1), ARMY FIELD MANUAL 27-10, THE LAW OF LAND WARFARE (18-JUL-1956)., This manual supersedes FM 27-10, 1 October 1940, including C 1, 15 November 1944. This copy is a reprint which includes current pages from Change 1. The purpose of this Manual is to provide authoritative guidance to military personnel on the customary and treaty law applicable to the conduct of warfare on land and to relationships between belligerents and neutral States. Although certain of the legal principles set forth herein have application to warfare at sea and in the air as well as to hostilities on land, this Manual otherwise concerns itself with the rules peculiar to naval and aerial warfare only to the extent that such rules have some direct bearing on the activities of land forces. This Manual is an official publication of the United States Army. However, those provisions of the Manual which are neither statutes nor the text of treaties to which the United States is a party should not be considered binding upon courts and tribunals applying the law of war. However, such provisions are of evidentiary value insofar as they bear upon questions of custom and practice.