In military terminology, desertion is the abandonment of one's "duty" or post without permission from one's Government or one's superior. One's ultimate "duty" or "responsibility," however, under International Law, isn't necessarily always to one's "Government" nor to one's "superior," as we see in the fourth of the Nuremberg Principles, which states: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior doesn't relieve him from responsibility under international l… (More on Awol)