Is There a Legalization of Wartime Rape?

The biblical law sets boundaries that I would argue dramatically humanize an all too common legacy of war. In eastern Chad in Kenya it is understood that rape is a just retaliation for these women scavenging food in the open fields. Some interpreters actually see in our due to our economic law another legalization of wartime rape. But I gotta say I don't. Rather I ask with Christopher Wright the esteemed Old Testament ethicist whose interests does this law serve? Whose power is being restricted? And the answer of course is that the law is designed to protect the interests of the captive. It limits the power of the victorious soldier and it acknowledges the humanity of the woman bereaved.