Another question, 39.

By the way, I should say first, congrats on the effort and the digs. Whether your theory is accurate or not, digging and theorizing is the first and most important step to finding out pretty much anything, so well done. Now...

In your previous post:

The DOD Law of War Manual (11.3) explains that GC code applies to both the belligerent occupier and the occupied territory(USA). After one year the GC obligation expires for the occupied territory. Remember China and Biden took control on 1/20/2021. One year will be 1/20/2022. After that date our military has the legal authority to take our country back, this is when 11.3 goes in to effect.

Question: 11.3 explains the end of occupation. Chapter 11 as a whole, explains the nature of occupation and the constraints and obligations of an occupying force.

Where does the concept of "legal authority" to take one's own territory back arise from, and why on earth would it take one year?

If you invade my country and occupy one of my states, and we are in a state of war, then surely I can attack and retake what is mine.

Moreover, you state that the manual explains that the GC applies to both belligerent occupier and the occupied territory, but no where does it suggest or imply that it somehow applies to the original sovereign of the occupied territory (which is what Trump and any legitimate US govt would be).

All the manual says is that the occupier (i.e. Biden + China) is obliged to observe the GC.

How do you extrapolate this to somehow infer obligations on the legitimate sovereign? The manual states that occupation is defined by fact. I.e. control.

If Trump occupied (belligerently) what is legitimately China's territory, for example, then yes, the GC would applies to Trumps actions. Law of war.

In the case of occupied territory, the application of the GC shall cease one year after the general close of military operations; however, the Occupying Power shall be bound, for the duration of the occupation, to the extent that such State exercises the functions of government in such territory, by the provisions of the following Articles of the GC:

I cannot find anything in the manual that refers directly or indirectly to obligations by the sovereign OR any limits on what a sovereign may do in order to recover their own territory. Am I wrong?

signed, eager for clarification or illumination

Another question, 39.

In your previous post:

The DOD Law of War Manual (11.3) explains that GC code applies to both the belligerent occupier and the occupied territory(USA). After one year the GC obligation expires for the occupied territory. Remember China and Biden took control on 1/20/2021. One year will be 1/20/2022. After that date our military has the legal authority to take our country back, this is when 11.3 goes in to effect.

Question: 11.3 explains the end of occupation. Chapter 11 as a whole, explains the nature of occupation and the constraints and obligations of an occupying force.

Where does the concept of "legal authority" to take one's own territory back arise from, and why on earth would it take one year?

If you invade my country and occupy one of my states, and we are in a state of war, then surely I can attack and retake what is mine.

Moreover, you state that the manual explains that the GC applies to both belligerent occupier and the occupied territory, but no where does it suggest or imply that it somehow applies to the original sovereign of the occupied territory (which is what Trump and any legitimate US govt would be).

All the manual says is that the occupier (i.e. Biden + China) is obliged to observe the GC.

How do you extrapolate this to somehow infer obligations on the legitimate sovereign? The manual states that occupation is defined by fact. I.e. control.

If Trump occupied (belligerently) what is legitimately China's territory, for example, then yes, the GC would applies to Trumps actions. Law of war.

In the case of occupied territory, the application of the GC shall cease one year after the general close of military operations; however, the Occupying Power shall be bound, for the duration of the occupation, to the extent that such State exercises the functions of government in such territory, by the provisions of the following Articles of the GC:

I cannot find anything in the manual that refers directly or indirectly to obligations by the sovereign OR any limits on what a sovereign may do in order to recover their own territory. Am I wrong?

signed, eager for clarification or illumination