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    The 'feasible precautions' standard is epistemically inde... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Military forces are obligated to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize incidental civilian casualties and damage to civilian objects during military operations.

    The 'feasible precautions' standard is epistemically indeterminate: commanders cannot know in real-time what precautions were genuinely feasible under fog of war.

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    • 1.Fog of war involves incomplete information about enemy positions, civilian locations, and threat levels that commanders cannot fully resolve in real-time.
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    • 2.Feasibility judgments require counterfactual knowledge of what precautions would have succeeded given unknowable battlefield conditions at decision-time.
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    • 3.Post-hoc investigations with complete information cannot reliably reconstruct what was genuinely feasible under actual uncertainty constraints.
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    • 1.Feasibility is determined by available resources, training, and procedures—not information—so uncertainty doesn't render it indeterminate.
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    • 2.Law consistently applies standards like 'reasonable precautions' in uncertain contexts; feasibility indeterminacy would paralyze all legal accountability.
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    • 3.Commanders can know in real-time whether specific precautions (reconnaissance, warnings, delays) are operationally feasible to attempt, regardless of success odds.
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