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The Laws of War already take into account necessity and therefore you cannot use necessity as a reason to break the rules.
‘The Geneva Conventions understand the laws of armed conflict as “a compromise based on a balance between military necessity (that is, those measures essential to attain the goals of war) and the requirements of humanity.”’
Shannon Brandt Ford, ‘Military Ethics and Strategy’, in George Lucas (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics, (Routledge, Abingdon, 2015), p189.
