Sometimes the good guys win.

I have to wonder what effect this case and many others are having when you have to consider that doing your duty may cause you to be set upon by a pack of jackals. The trend is not good.

In the philosophical sense, you have to wonder if trying to civilize warfare and run it with a bunch of lawyers is the correct thing to do.
War really has only one rule. The rest are figments of an imagined morality. Morality is gone the instant you enter warfare, to argue otherwise is less than the truth. A great many rules have been made about the precise method of acceptably killing another human, but the end result is the same no matter how many flourishes you embellish the act with by legal disclaimer.