"we have no good rules for dealing with enemies who are not in uniform"

Bill do you believe that the CIA operatives playing real life snuff 'video games' with their drones are 'in uniform'?


Prof Gary Solis, formerly a West Point scholar on the laws of war and currently at Georgetown University, wrote recently in the WashingtonPost that in engaging in combat as civilians "CIA agents are like the unlawful combatants that they target".

In his article Prof Solis argues that because they are unmarked military personnel "without uniforms or insignia" directly participating in hostilities they are equivalent to civilians who directly participate in the activities of non-state groups and hence are unprotected by the laws of war.