>>1821362>Punishments for crimes have to be enforced, and to enforce a punishment you have to have the actual physical force to do so.generally after conflicts people who commit war crimes are tried by international court and rounded up by international agencies. also, countries that agree that some act or another is a war crime will usually prosecute or extradite their own personnel
>and committing said "war crimes" increases the chances of winning a war.not in all cases and pissing off both the losing country and the international community is generally a bad thing. wars aren't just "lets kill le bad guys hurr durr" it's usually got a political aspect behind it. you could be all "RAH RAH LETS JUST NUKE IRAQ" but it kinda ignores why people were ever sent in at all, and that just bombing the place and raping all the citizens and shit would end up with the same high oil prices as simply not doing anything at all.
short of outright colonization by way of replacing the natives with your own people, which is a fairly expensive and salt-inducing practice, you really dont want to present yourself as Literally Hitler in a war because after the war is over you generally want the locals to do something for you. a populace that is 99% burn victims who are currently in the midst of being raped on camera by paratroopers isn't a very productive workforce
