But perfidy is a real war crime, and it is distinct from just being tricky and shrewd, or not announcing in a loud voice the exact place, time, and manner of your attack.

Perfidy represents an especially serious violation of the law of war, one that is even identified as a “grave breach” at Article 147 of Geneva Convention No. IV.

The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts released their up-tempo version of “Perfidia” in February 1952 and it climbed to No. 7, which I suppose means perfidy never really goes out of style.

The classic example of perfidy is feigning surrender. If you wave a white flag and then pull out a gun as the enemy approaches to take you prisoner, that is a straightforward breach of the law.

The Cost of Contractual Perfidy with Intellectual Property Imagine being sued for breach of contract, the claim being that you failed to deliver what you promised, and scrambling for a defense. In ...

The Edo gubernatorial scuffle, with echoes and counter-echoes of “impeachment”, is Karma quacking loud and clear: it’s perfidy warring with its two children. It may well consume them both ...

The foremost strategic goal of last year’s Russian meddling in US elections, former director of national intelligence James Clapper said at his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on ...

That the United Nations is hostile to Israel hardly comes as a surprise. The perfidy that permeates the house over which Kurt Waldheim once presided can be cut with a knife; Israel bashing has ...

The 2007 Red Mosque massacre captures what Lord Macaulay has called "the ambition and perfidy of tyrants." Bearded militants and veiled women occupying the mosque in Islamabad, not far from the halls ...

Given deep roots of perfidy in Pakistan, it is unlikely that the new leadership emerging from the 2008 general elections will abandon the principle of deceit particularly with respect to the war ...