Mr. Gates approved the accelerated timetable in a Sept. 26 memo that also barred the Army from reaching the goal by lowering its recruiting standards or employing "stop loss," a practice of prohibiting soldiers from retiring.
Although the British came to similar conclusions [ 17, 52], their practice of returning soldiers with functional disorders to active duty seems to have been different.
Drill, preparation of soldiers for performance of their duties in peace and war through the practice and rehearsal of prescribed movements.
Perhaps then, when enough people are made aware, we can move beyond the barbaric practice of recruiting child soldiers.
The 11th-century historian John Skylitzes furthermore reports that Nikephoros brought an end to abuse against the local population, by ending the practice of returning Byzantine soldiers carrying off local Italians to be sold off in the East as slaves.
These findings plea for more contextualized approaches, which try to understand the nuanced and complex realities of young people's entry into fighting forces, including underlying root causes, as well as local views on the motives to persist or to abandon practices of child soldiering [ 10, 86].
By Robert McLaughlin The New Yorker, October 23, 1943 P. 22 A squad of soldiers practicing the use of the compass; bickering among them; the acting corporal's needling of a shy, nineteen-year-old soldier; mustard gas contamination from bathing in the creek of a posted area.
The notorious practice of dragonnades, the billeting of soldiers in Protestant homes with permission to behave as brutally as they wished, was introduced.
Beevor also quotes postwar investigators who found that the "widespread practice of cannibalism by Japanese soldiers in the Asia-Pacific war was something more than merely random incidents perpetrated by individuals or small groups subject to extreme conditions.
Our relationship with this court will remain complex, but should Lubanga's fate not be applauded for marking our intolerance to the practice of turning children into soldiers?
