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How is the 'right to life' reconciled with the legal authority of military officers? (to issue orders that will cause deaths)

I'm not familiar with the academic or practical debates for this topic so I would like to ask it here. The closest related was this decision of the German supreme court regarding plane shootdowns: ...
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Does John Demjanjuk ruling theoretically jeopardize members of the US armed forces residing on German soil as parts of a "mass murder machine"?

Does this decision/ruling mean that an American soldier can not safely cross German soil due to universal jurisdiction? Practically speaking given the international political dynamics I don't suppose ...
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