"my minor question to the OP is, why does he contradict himself? "there never was any armed conflict" vs. "GC rules apply to both parties if involved in armed conflict until...""<

Why does anyone have to explain that "Armed Conflict" can take many forms, even Cyber War, which we are currently in, along with a Biological War, and does not specifically mean Kinetic War......

As for the rest of it, he too, just like the rest of us, can open the links provided, and read them the way we do, and get some better understanding.....

"my minor question to the OP is, why does he contradict himself? "there never was any armed conflict" vs. "GC rules apply to both parties if involved in armed conflict until...""

Why does anyone have to explain that "Armed Conflict" can take many forms, even Cyber War, which we are currently in, along with a Biological War, and does not specifically mean Kinetic War......

As for the rest of it, he too, just like the rest of us, can open the links provided, and read them the way we do, and get some better understanding.....