Captured Terrorists Now Referred to as “Unprivileged Enemy” in Dept. of Defense Manual

11/28/2014

The Department of Defense will no longer call captured terrorists “unlawful combatants,” but will now refer to these people as “unprivileged enemies.”

In a joint publication released this month, terrorists captured and detained by the United States will no longer be called “unlawful combatants,” which is now apparently an obsolete term.

Instead, a more polically correct term, “unprivileged enemies,” has been chosen.

The manual explains, “Belligerent. In general, a person who is engaged in hostilities against the US or its multinational partners during an armed conflict. The term belligerent includes both privileged belligerent and unprivileged enemy belligerent.”

It also includes this chart to explain the change:

The difference between a privileged and unprivileged enemy is explained after the chart:

You can read the entire document here.

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