Warrior Skills Level 1 - Leader Development for Army Professionals

Performance Steps
j. Describe the protections given to hospitals and other places where the
sick and wounded are collected during an attack or bombardment.
(1) Describe the effect on this protected status if enemy Soldiers are
the sick or wounded inside these hospitals or medical areas.
(2) Describe the effect on this protected status if these hospitals or
medical areas are being used for military purposes.
k. Describe what may be an illegal trick or method or treacherous act
under the law of war in regards to permissible targets.
l. Describe why illegal tricks or methods or treacherous acts are
prohibited.
m. Describe the legality of incidental damage to surrounding buildings
during an attack on a legitimate target.
5. Describe the customary law of war and Hague Regulations' prohibitions on
using certain types of weapons.
a. Describe the Hague regulations' prohibitions on employing arms,
material, or projectiles designated to cause unnecessary suffering
b. Describe how a Soldier could violate the law of war by using an issued
weapon in an illegal manner.
c. Describe the Hague regulations' prohibitions on using poison or
poisoned weapons against human beings in war.
d. Describe the 1925 Geneva protocol's prohibition on using asphyxiating,
poisonous, or other gases and the prohibition of bacteriological methods of
warfare in war.
e. Describe the 1925 Geneva protocol's ban on using chemical weapons in
war.
(1) Describe the United States' prohibition on the first use in war of
chemical weapons.
(2) Describe the United States' reservation to use chemical weapons
against a State if that State fails to respect the Geneva protocol's ban on using
chemical weapons.
(3) Define a lethal chemical agent and described how this Geneva
protocol applies to a lethal chemical agent.
(4) Define an incapacitating chemical agent and described how this
Geneva protocol applies to an incapacitating chemical agent.
(5) Describe the United States' position that the Geneva protocol
allows the use of either chemical herbicides or riot control agents in war.
(a) Describe the United States' unilateral renouncement of first
use of herbicides in war and exception to this policy.
(b) Describe the United States' policy regarding first use of riot
control agents in war.
(c) Describe the requirement for Presidential approval prior to
using herbicides or riot control agents in armed conflict.
STP 21-1-SMCT 2 May 2011 3-195