by Christian Ohanian | Feb 2, 2023
A Digital Red Cross: What Would It Defend Against? On November 18, 1991, after enduring a three-month artillery assault, the city of Vukovar in Croatia fell to what was then known as the federal Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary forces. After JNA...
by Caroline Tuckett | Jan 23, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – What’s in a Name? Getting it Right for the Naval “Drone” Attack on Sevastopol Editors’ Note: As part of our 2023 Year Ahead series, our Board of Advisors member Prof. Dr. Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg presciently identified legal issues...
by David Wallace, Shane Reeves | Jan 13, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – The “I Want to Live” Project and Technologically-Enabled Surrender In their ongoing armed conflict, the Russian Federation and Ukraine have engaged in sustained information campaigns using leaflets, social media posts, radio appeals, text messages,...
by Chris Jenks, Eric Jensen | Jan 13, 2023
Year Ahead – Emerging Technologies and the Collection of Battlefield Evidence In a recent series of posts on responsible artificial intelligence (AI), various authors (including Chris Jenks) have discussed the role of “responsibility” in the context of using of...
by Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg | Jan 5, 2023
Year Ahead – The Legal Status of Unmanned Maritime (Naval) Systems: A Never-Ending Story? An international workshop held at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., from 20 to 21 March 2012, was to discuss the legal status of unmanned maritime systems (UMS)...
by Camilla Cooper | Nov 7, 2022
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are used in a...
