To qualify under the Third Geneva Convention, a combatant must have conducted military operations according to the laws and customs of war, be part of a chain of command, wear a " fixed distinctive marking, visible from a distance " and bear arms openly.

Guessing the intent of the Allied command meeting, Patton ordered his staff to make three separate operational contingency orders to disengage elements of the Third Army from its present position and begin offensive operations toward several objectives in the area of the Bulge occupied by German forces.

In 1916 he was promoted to colonel and attached again as liaison officer to Army Group Mackensen and the Bulgarian Third Army for the operations against Romania.

" Ultimately, the organization was created to balance CIA's espionage operations which primarily targeted Soviet KGB / GRU officers, but ignored and were dismissive of Third World targets in areas of potential military conflict.

* 1973: Third extension of Gatwick's runway to to allow non-stop narrowbody operations to the US west coast with a full payload and commercially viable, long-range widebody operations.

it deployed from Great Falls to RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom ( UK ), and set up operations as part of USAFE's Third Air Force in February 1954.

The real scale and impact of SIS activities during the second half of the Cold War remains unknown, however, because the bulk of their most successful targeting operations against Soviet officials were the result of " Third Country " operations recruiting Soviet sources travelling abroad in Asia and Africa.

Most of the missions flown by Lt. Nellis were air-to-ground operations in support of General George S. Patton's Third United States Army.

Halsey's Third Fleet was assigned to cover and support Seventh Fleet operations around Leyte.

However, Halsey played the odds, declining to cancel planned operations and requiring the ships of Third Fleet to hold formation.

Third Fleet conducted search and rescue operations for three days following the storm, finally retiring for repairs at Ulithi on December 22.

* Irving Lambert-The operations coordinator at Third Echelon, he is the link between agents, like Fisher, and a remote team of specialists monitoring them.

Sumitomo Corporation operates its New York Office, the headquarters of the corporation's United States operations, at 600 Third Avenue, 10016 in the Murray Hill neighborhood.

The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of Kharkov (; ), between 19 February and 15 March 1943.

Third Fleet's primary mission is one of conflict deterrence, but in the event of general war, it would conduct prompt and sustained combat operations at sea to carry out the Pacific Fleet strategy in the theater.

Such operations would be executed well forward and early in a conflict to carry out the primary wartime mission of Third Fleet — the defense of the western sea approaches to the United States, including Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

Third Fleet training has been designed to ensure that deploying forces are fully prepared for joint operations.

The ships of the Fifth Fleet also formed the basis of the Third Fleet, which was the designation of the " Big Blue Fleet " when under the command of Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr .. Spruance and Halsey would alternate command of the fleet for major operations, allowing the other admiral and his staff time to prepare for the subsequent one.

In that role, the Wolfhound platoons were alerted and attached to Third Army ( Forward ) into Kuwait City 26 February, where they secured the headquarters area and conducted mop-up operations in the city and its adjacent mine fields.

The Geneva Conventions established new protocols, namely, according to Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, francs-tireurs are entitled to prisoner of war status provided that they are commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates, have a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly, and conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

The 3d Air Division was discontinued on 1 May 1951, and in its place the USAFE Third Air Force was activated to oversee tactical air operations.

Thousands of miles removed from the Kuwait theater of operations, Third Air Force played a major support role, deploying half its combat aircraft, several thousand vehicles, approximately 50, 000 tons of munitions, and many more tons of supplies and material.

This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis, a period of military and economic collapse which came close to destroying the empire.

Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.

The transaction, which required United States government approval because of the engine technology, was rejected by the administration of President Jimmy Carter in order to discourage the proliferation of sophisticated military equipment in the Third World.

The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military " Pep Talk " to members of the Third Army, set against a huge American flag.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

The state was placed under military occupation until August 1942, when it was formally annexed by the Third Reich as part of the Gau Moselland.

It was used as a military outpost by the Kzinti, until the planet was hit by a weapon called the " Wunderland Treatymaker " during the Third War.

In the week preceding the military coup, the Montoneros killed 13 policemen as part of its Third National Military Campaign.

In the Third Republic a coalition of the CDS and PNDS was formed with many small parties, in part to keep the former military party of the MNSD out of power.

In the second half of the 17th century and most of the eighteenth, Poznań was severely affected by a series of wars ( and attendant military occupations, lootings and destruction ) – the Second and Third Northern Wars, the War of the Polish Succession, the Seven Years ' War and the Bar Confederation rebellion.

Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention protects captured military personnel, some guerrilla fighters and certain civilians.

The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Republics were nominally democratic, but are widely regarded as the continuation of military rule.

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

Steve Jackson Games produced numerous supplements for the line, including details for all of the major races, many of the minor races, interstellar trade, expanded world generation, the military forces of the Third Imperium, and starships.

In Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer 343 U. S. 579, 644 ( 1952 ), Justice Robert H. Jackson's concurring opinion cites the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers ' intent to constrain executive power even during wartime: " hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history.

Not so, however, in the United States, for the Third Amendment says ... ven in war time, his seizure of needed military housing must be authorized by Congress.

The Ruhr was an industrial region of Germany taken over by the military forces of the French Third Republic and Belgium, in response to the failure of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno to keep paying the World War I reparations.

* January 4 c A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.

Commodus's assassination led to a succession crisis, the so-called Year of the Five Emperors, which culminated in the ascension of a soldier-emperor, Septimius Severus, who, despite giving the Empire a peaceful reign, was accused by Gibbon of catalysing the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of economic, political and military crisis that, together with the Germanic invasions and the rise of the Sassanid Persian Empire in the East, almost led the Empire to collapse.

The " Carnation Revolution " of 1974, an effectively bloodless left-wing military coup, installed the " Third Republic ".

In October 1917, Lawrence, as part of a general effort to divert Turkish military resources away from the British advance before the Third Battle of Gaza, led a small force of Syrians and Arabians in defending Petra against a much larger combined force of Turks and Germans.

Having been close to La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli ( a Third World Priest opposed by much of Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church ), he was imprisoned by the military junta in Formosa Province until 1981, reportedly tortured in the process.

In theory, the OKW served as the military general staff for the Third Reich, coordinating the efforts of the Army, Navy, and Air Force ( Heer, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe ).