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feasible precautions must be taken in connection with certain types of weapons. 30 Feasibleprecautions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians must also be taken by the party subject toattack. 315.3.3.1 Feasible Precautions – Notes on Terminology. Although this manualprimarily uses “feasible,” other adjectives have been used to describe the obligation to takefeasible precautions during armed conflict. The words “practicable,” 32 “reasonable,” 33 “due,” 34and “necessary” 35 have been used to describe this obligation.5.3.3.2 What Precautions Are Feasible. The standard for what precautions mustbe taken is one of due regard or diligence, not an absolute requirement to do everythingpossible. 36 A wanton disregard for civilian casualties or harm to other protected persons andobjects is clearly prohibited. 3730 Refer to § 5.3.3.3 (Requirements to Take Precautions Regarding Specific Weapons).31 Refer to § 5.14 (Feasible Precautions to Reduce the Risk of Harm to Protected Persons and Objects by the PartySubject to Attack).32 Michael J. Matheson, Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State, Remarks on the United States Position on theRelation of Customary International Law to the 1977 Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions at theSixth Annual American Red Cross-Washington College of Law Conference on International Humanitarian Law(Jan. 22, 1987), 2 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY 419, 426-27 (1987) (“Wesupport the principle that all practicable precautions, taking into account military and humanitarian considerations,be taken in the conduct of military operations to minimize incidental death, injury, and damage to civilians andcivilian objects, and that effective advance warning be given of attacks which may affect the civilian population,unless circumstances do not permit.”).33 See, e.g., U.S. Comments on the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Memorandum on the Applicability ofInternational Humanitarian Law in the Gulf Region, Jan. 11, 1991, DIGEST OF UNITED STATES PRACTICE ININTERNATIONAL LAW 1991-1999 2057, 2063 (“A defender must exercise reasonable precaution to separate thecivilian population and civilian objects from military objectives.”); 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 41(“Those who plan or decide upon an attack, therefore, must take all reasonable steps to ensure not only that theobjectives are identified as military objectives or defended places within the meaning of the preceding paragraph butalso that these objectives may be attacked without probable losses in lives and damage to property disproportionateto the military advantage anticipated.”); Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minster, United Kingdom, Statement before theHouse of Commons, Jun. 21, 1938, HANSARD, 337 HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES §§ 937 (“[R]easonable care mustbe taken in attacking those military objectives so that by carelessness a civilian population in the neighbourhood isnot bombed.”).34 United States, Statement on Consent to Be Bound by the CCW Amended Mines Protocol, May 24, 1999, 2065UNTS 128, 129 (“The United States reserves the right to use other devices (as defined in Article 2(5) of theAmended Mines Protocol) to destroy any stock of food or drink that is judged likely to be used by an enemy militaryforce, if due precautions are taken for the safety of the civilian population.”).35 U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 2675, Basic Principles for the Protection of Civilian Populations inArmed Conflict, U.N. Doc. A/8028 (Dec. 9, 1970) (“In the conduct of military operations, every effort should bemade to spare the civilian populations from the ravages of war, and all necessary precautions should be taken toavoid injury, loss or damage to civilian populations.”); HAGUE IX art. 5 (“In bombardments by naval forces all thenecessary measures must be taken by the commander to spare as far as possible sacred edifices, buildings used forartistic, scientific, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals, and places where the sick or wounded arecollected, on the understanding that they are not used at the same time for military purposes.”).36 See also Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minster, United Kingdom, Statement before the House of Commons, Jun. 21,1938, HANSARD, 337 HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATES §§ 937-939 (“[R]easonable care must be taken in attacking189