Luis Moreno-Ocampo , Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court , investigated allegations of war crimes during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and he published an open letter containing his findings . In a section titled " Allegations concerning War Crimes " he did not call it military necessity but summed up the term : The judgement of a field commander in battle over '' military necessity '' and '' proportionality '' is rarely subject to domestic or international legal challenge unless the methods of warfare used by the commander were illegal , as for example was the case with Radislav Krstic who was found guilty as an aider and abbetor to genocide by International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Military necessity