Articles of War
Can AI Teach Itself to Abuse IHL-Protected Indicators?
In war, there is every incentive to deceive. Thousands of years ago, humans learnt that misleading the enemy, dissimulating one’s intentions, and misrepresenting the truth often led to tangible tactical and operational benefits. Humans, however, also came to...
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Reentering the Loop
The warfighting advantages of using lethal autonomous systems, and the potential costs of not using them, seem to guarantee their role in future...
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq
A recent New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about...
A Primer on the ICJ’s Upcoming Armed Activities Reparations Judgment
On February 9, 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will render its judgment on the question of reparations in the Armed Activities on...
Non-Binding Norms in the Law of Armed Conflict
In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration appointees criticized the Geneva Conventions as being, among other things,...
Attacking Dams – Part II: The 1977 Additional Protocols
A recent New York Times report of a 2017 attack by U.S. forces against the Tabqa Dam in Syria has sparked controversy and criticism. In Part I of...
Hollywood and the Laws of War
Common Article 1 of Geneva Conventions of August 1949 (CA 1) imposes a legal obligation on all States, as parties to the Conventions, to respect and...
Attacking Dams – Part I: Customary International Law
The New York Times recently reported on a March 2017 airstrike by U.S. forces against the Tabqa Dam, the largest in Syria. At the time of the...
Why Binding Limitations on Autonomous Weapons Will Remain Elusive
Recent calls to abandon existing and ongoing legal processes to develop regulations for autonomous weapons should be evaluated cautiously or even...
Afghanistan 2021: Reflections from the Stockton Center for International Law’s Workshop
Despite over twenty years of legal analysis, many issues regarding the Afghanistan conflict remain unsettled. At a recent Stockton Center for...
Privacy vs. Precaution in Future Armed Conflict
The operational demands of modern armed conflict highlight a pressing need for information, including highly private data about persons. This post...
“Great Power Competition” Between Russia and Ukraine: Law of Armed Conflict Implications
In a previous article, we discussed the law-of-war implications arising from what the United States is calling “Great Power Competition” (for...
LOAC and Legitimacy: When Combat Becomes a Supporting Effort to Information
Over the past two decades information was mostly conceptualized as a supporting effort to combat: information contributed to tactical and...
