The United States is currently engaged in combat and counterinsurgency operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, with over 137,000 US soldiers on the ground in those two countries alone …

The article offers information on the conflict between natural law and the increasing reliance
in the expanded temporal limitation in the usage of force in self-defense. It says that …

This paper argues that the original basis for the law of self-defense as applied on the
battlefield is that natural law, and that modern Rules of Engagement with respect to the right …