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Ryan Dowdy
| Feb 13, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
Multi-Domain Operations: Closing the Eighteenth Capability Gap After emerging from decades of counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, the Army identified seventeen capability gaps in its conventional warfighting capacity. Certainly, the doctrine and policies associated...
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Dan Maurer
| Jan 5, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
The U.S. DoD’s New Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Policy and “Harm Resulting From” Military Operations In a much-celebrated move in late December 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) made good on its promise to publish an enterprise-wide policy on...
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Liisi Adamson
| Dec 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, State Responsibility, Targeting
Year in Review – 2023 2023 has witnessed not only a continuation of ongoing conflicts, including those in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh, but also the emergence of new hostilities. A notable addition to the global security landscape was the renewed armed conflict...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Dec 21, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Targeting
The New U.S. Department of Defense Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response On August 25, 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III approved and released the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP)—an action plan that creates new...
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Arthur van Coller
| Nov 6, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – Redefining Doubt The third edition of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Law of War Manual, updated in December 2016, rejected the customary international law status of the legal presumption of civilian status for persons and objects in...
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Christiane Wilke,
Helyeh Doutaghi
| Oct 27, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, LOAC History, Targeting
Conceptualizing Civilians: Beyond “Innocence” This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare, a significant attempt to conceptualize the regulation of the then-novel technologies of aerial bombing. While technologies of aerial warfare...
