Down that road Captain, just because you can kill someone with a pencil does not make it an offensive weapon.

White Phosphorus is used as a marker or for smoke, and in your rules of engagement that is its permitted use and function.

Having said that, purely as a hypocritical warmongering arsehole, if I were to find myself and the men under my command in a life threatening situation, then my priorities are to ensure that I protect the lives of my men before any others to ensure that the maximum number of my men get through the engagement alive. If you are at war there is only one rule - You make damn sure you win.

Now if, in a similar situation, the likes of yourself Captain Subtle, or Don the Twat (I take it that that IS what the T stands for), would prefer standing there getting hammered while you confer with somebody who looks up what are supposed to be the rules in order to advise you. Then all I can say is thank fuck I would never find myself under your command. I say that for primarily your own good because if I was present the first thing I'd do is damn well shoot the pair of you.