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Facts: Germans enter Angola to negotiate the transportation of supplies.  Argument ensues and the Germans are shot.  Without any further communication a number of angola forts are destroyed

Germany claimed with were engaged in a reprisal but they did not satisfy the requirements of a legal reprisal

1. Act contrary to international law
2. unsatisfied demand
3. proportional and necessary

to legally launch hostilities short of war there are lots of hoops to jump through.