Yet another goal is to encourage warring powers to set up chains of command to ensure that combatants are held responsible for their actions.

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Natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, flooding and drought command our attention regularly (and remind us that sometimes human actions have made their effects worse).

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For his actions, last week, Asayag was removed from his command and barred from further service in combat forces by his battalion commander, Lt.

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Hutchins' lead defense attorney, Richard Brannon, countered that the actions of Hutchins and his men was "a failure of command, " alluding to allegations that their platoon leader's rough handling of some detainees sent the wrong message to the Marines.

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