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The Geneva Convention is just a set of rules, nations and individuals can choose to obey them or not. However, its existence provides accountability, i.e. if you do bad things you will be tried for war crimes when we catch you. So in that sense all wars make use of the Geneva Convention. But yes, there's always someone that does something we consider reprehensible even in the context of a war.

I think cleveland's idea of making all forts into the Alamo sounds like it would increase strategic options. But I don't expect anything to change and the way things are now isn't bad.