514 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies N. 5 / 2015 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE OF AGRAMANTE’S CAMP DEFINITION: THE “AGRAMANTE’S CAMP” Rules of Engagement (“Rules of Engagement, ROEs”) are orders that determine how force is used in an operation, fixing its intensity and its control.1 They belong within the field of command, as an operational, planning, training and legal factor.2 By specifying the form and conditions of applying force,3 they delineate the so-called “Agramante’s Camp”. Here we are referring to the area of conflict within which the soldiers on a campaign move, in the midst of the chaos, the fog and the heat of battle. The “Agramante’s Camp” is physical, psychological, legal and ethical in nature,4 these being its regions of knowledge and activity. It recalls Fauconnier’s mental spaces,5 the “behind the scenes” cognitive domains, the “world of possible representation” 6 created by our senses, prior knowledge and particular ideology. The “Agramante’s Camp” is related to two other concepts that serve as explanatory images: the Biosphere and the possible worlds. The first, according to Suess and Vernadsky, is the unique ecological system that encompasses life on Earth.7 The “Agramante’s Camp” would be that unique ecological system, the combination of 1 MARTINS, Mark S., Rules of Engagement for Land Forces: A Matter of Training, Not Lawyering, Military Law Review, vol. nº 143 (Winter 1994); and CENTER FOR LAW AND MILITARY OPERATIONS & JOINT FORCE JUDGE ADVOCATE, Operational Law Handbook 2002. Charlottesville: The Judge Advocate General´s Legal Center & School (US. Army), 2002. 2 HOEGE, H. H., ROE… also a Matter of Doctrine, The Army Lawyer, Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-353 (June, 2002). 3 MARTINS, Mark S., op. cit. 4 Functions like a multiverse (the totality of space and time, of all forms of matter, energy and impulse, the physical laws and constants that govern them, applied to the military realm) separated in complex and complete planes (universes), at times hidden. We recall Antoine de Saint- Exupéry: “what is essential is invisible to the eye”. 5 FAUCONNIER, G. Mental spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 6 GALLARDO PAÚLS, B. Conocimiento y Lenguaje. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2005, p. 311. 7 GRINEVALD, J. La Biosphère: un concept holistique fondamental, en BASSAND, M., GALLAND, B., and JOYE, D., Transformations techniques et Sociétés, Berna: 1992. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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