Key Points
Larger 6.5 mm Fiat-Revellimachine guns lined the outer walls..
For more than a hundred years, though, the idea that war can be civilised by lawalong with fantasies about precision weapons and non-kinetic warfarehas served to tranquillise our imagination..
Alberto Sbacchihas recorded that from the beginning of the Ethiopian campaign in May 1936 to Fascist Italys entry into the Second World War in June 1940, some 500 tonnes ofchemicalsPhosgene, Arsenite and Yperite were used against Ethiopians..
The members of the Imperial Japanese Armys Unit 731 were tried and punished for their gruesomebiological and chemical warfare experimentsin Chinafrom 1931 to 1945.However,the perpetrators of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not, even though documents show their intent was thekilling of large numbers of civilians..
The ongoing enquiry into thekilling of eighty Afghansby lite British special forcesin 2012, or the chargesbrought against Australian troopsfor war crimes tell us that militaries will punish some egregious crimes, as they always have..
