Explosions in multiple revetments may have occurred when pieces of live ordnance from one revetment have been thrown into others by the force of explosion, thereby detonating the ordnance in other revetments.

Kuwait also states that ordnance was stored in bermed areas, variously described as bunkers, revetments or magazines, with sand walls.

In the recent conflict in Iraq the UK used air-delivered cluster munitions predominantly against military vehicles, both armoured and soft-skinned, in the open and in revetments.

Examples include building new coastal defence structures with an extra allowance for sea level rise and increases in wind speeds and wave heights (dykes, seawalls and replacement of revetments), coastal afforestation, beach nourishment and enforcement of beach dune belts.

But he explains neither the meaning of this concept nor his choice, stating only that “the universal and indivisible rights proclaimed by the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 deserve more than lip service”; only this sentence vaguely suggests his position on the matter; Rémy Cabrillac, Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Thierry Revet and Christophe Albigès, Libertés et droits fondamentaux, 14th ed.

In the recent conflict in Iraq the UK used air-delivered cluster munitions predominantly against military vehicles, both armoured and soft-skinned, in the open and in revetments. Cluster munitions are still the most appropriate air-delivered weapons in many situations because of their ability to destroy enemy assets dispersed over an area. In Iraq none was released in an urban area.

In the recent conflict in Iraq the UK used air-delivered cluster munitions predominantly against military vehicles, both armoured and soft-skinned, in the open and in revetments. Cluster munitions are still the most appropriate air-delivered weapons in many situations because of their ability to destroy enemy assets dispersed over an area. In Iraq none was released in an urban area.

The work to be undertaken “comprised of dredging works to provide a navigation channel and a marina, reclamation works using the dredged material to produce areas upon which future buildings would be constructed (separate contracts), rock work, break waters to form a lagoon and revetments to protect the newly reclaimed areas, concrete structures in guard houses, and a helipad structure.” Van Oord states that the work on the site began as scheduled, that the land reclamation phase of the work was at an “advanced stage,” the rock work and work on other marine structures was about to commence at the time of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait on 2 August 1990.