Maritime Blockade and its Starvation Effect: A Key Material Element in the Crime of Genocide?

Maritime Blockade and its Starvation Effect: A Key Material Element in the Crime of Genocide?

by | Sep 15, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Maritime

Maritime Blockade and its Starvation Effect: A Key Material Element in the Crime of Genocide? In modern terms, a maritime blockade can be defined as “a belligerent operation intended to prevent vessel traffic from all States from entering or leaving specified coastal...
State-Criminal Enterprise

State-Criminal Enterprise

by , | Sep 14, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification

State-Criminal Enterprise Criminal enterprises, once primarily associated with localized crime, are increasingly becoming a destabilizing force beyond national borders. A 2006 report from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime details how...
Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations

Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations

by | Sep 11, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting

Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations Consider the following scenario in the not-so-distant future: the Suwałki Gap, Autumn, 203X. In a desperate test of the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article V, mechanized forces of the...
Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

by | Sep 10, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers Few issues have attracted more attention in contemporary targeting law than reverberating effects from attacks. Much discussion has focused on attacks against traditional...
Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry

Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry

by | Sep 9, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Emerging Technologies

Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the tenth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....
How Should Military AI Be Evaluated Under IHL?

How Should Military AI Be Evaluated Under IHL?

by | Sep 8, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance

How Should Military AI Be Evaluated Under IHL? Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an integral part of military operations. AI-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS) support intelligence analysis, target verification, operational planning, and the execution of...