A Legal Assessment of North Korean Missile Tests
by Michael N. Schmitt, John C. Tramazzo | Aug 11, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Other Bodies of Law
A Legal Assessment of North Korean Missile Tests On July 11, 2023, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Korean People’s Army (KPA) Strategic Force fired a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), North Korea’s most powerful ballistic...
2023 DoD Manual Revision – What’s In a Presumption?
by Geoff Corn | Aug 3, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – What’s In a Presumption? (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) One of the most notable—if not the most notable—changes to the Department of Defense...
2023 DoD Manual Revision – Handling Uncertainty in the Law of Attack
by Michael N. Schmitt | Aug 2, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – Handling Uncertainty in the Law of Attack (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) A Civilian Status Presumption The recent revisions to the DoD Law of...
2023 DoD Manual Revision – The Civilian Presumption Misnomer
by Hitoshi Nasu, Sean Watts | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – The Civilian Presumption Misnomer (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) The changes made to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Law of War Manual...
2023 DoD Manual Revision – A Welcome Change to the Presumption of Civilian Status
by Michael W. Meier | Jul 31, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – A Welcome Change to the Presumption of Civilian Status (Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts that will analyze and assess the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) On 11 July, the...