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forces adhering to LOAC while international partners follow criminal law and human rights law-creates operational and legal difficulties during U.S. military forces provide security assistance to partner nations in these circumstances, they are operating in a gray area that requires legal and operational knowledge of both military and police tactics. However, these low-intensity conflicts can be so violent that the militaries in many countries have been called to support police efforts. 1 In these conditions, LOAC does not apply there is no armed conflict per the legal definition of the term. However, in over 80 percent of countries in the world today, violence is being caused not by conventional state-on-state armed conflicts but rather by criminal activity-which is often as intense and violent as conventional conflicts between nations. In overseas operations where an armed conflict is occurring, use-of-force rules are governed by the Geneva Conventions and other law of armed conflict (LOAC) treaties. The United States uses its Armed Forces almost exclusively overseas, normally as part of a coalition operation but also for noncombat operations such as disaster relief and security assistance.

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