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Eric Jensen,
Sean Watts
| Oct 31, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War This post was prepared in academic consultation with Major Inna Zavorotko, a lawyer with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Legal Division. A fuller treatment of wartime doxing, including in the context of...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 26, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law On October 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made separate calls to the Defense Ministers of France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In them, Shoigu claimed that...
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Benjamin R. Farley
| Oct 24, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Detention, Law of Armed Conflict
The Syrian Democratic Forces, Detained Foreign Fighters, and International Security Vulnerabilities Three-and-a-half years since the United States, its coalition partners, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) overpowered the last redoubt of the Islamic State of Iraq...
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Anaïs Maroonian
| Oct 24, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law: A Principle and a Rule This post is based on research supporting a doctoral dissertation in progress at the University of Geneva. Proportionality plays a key role in international humanitarian law (IHL). It is...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 20, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Attacking Power Infrastructure under International Humanitarian Law Over the past few weeks, the scale of Russian attacks against Ukraine’s power infrastructure has grown dramatically. The Washington Post, for instance, has reported, “[d]ozens of...
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Marko Milanovic
| Oct 19, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Complicity of Iran in Russia’s Aggression and War Crimes in Ukraine In recent days Russia has attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities using Iranian-made “kamikaze drones” or loitering munitions. While the EU is looking for “concrete evidence”...
