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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Yoram Dinstein (1936-2024) Editors’ note: This post honors Professor Yoram Dinstein, who passed away on Saturday February 10, 2024. Over the coming weeks, Articles of War will feature a series of posts to recognize Professor Dinstein’s work and the significant...
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Peter C. Combe
| Feb 9, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Ruminations on the Legal, Policy, and Moral Aspects of Proportionality On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants executed a devastating surprise attack against Israel, catching many in the Israeli and U.S. intelligence communities off...
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Gary Corn,
Eric Jensen
| Feb 8, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Lieber Studies Big Data Volume, Use of Force
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of...
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Marko Svicevic
| Feb 6, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Strikes against the Houthis: The Relationship between Resolution 2722 (2024) and the Right of Self-Defense Following their strikes against Houthi positions in Yemen, both the United States and the United Kingdom have based their actions on the inherent right of...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Targeting, Use of Force
Attacking the Quds Force and Affiliated Groups under the Jus ad Bellum On 28 January, a drone strike on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22 killed three soldiers and wounded 34. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a non-State militia group, claimed...
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Russell Buchan
| Jan 31, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force
The Law of Self-Defense and the U.S. and UK Strikes against the Houthis The Houthis are an Iran-aligned armed group that controls large swathes of territory in northern Yemen. Since 19 November 2023, and to support Hamas during its ongoing armed conflict with Israel,...
