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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...
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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...
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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...
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Caroline Krass
| Jul 31, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Department of Defense Issues Update to DoD Law of War Manual on Presumption of Civilian Status and Feasible Precautions to Verify Military Objectives Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released an important update to its Law of War Manual, including a revision to...
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Ori Pomson
| Oct 13, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On? As readers of Articles of War may recall, Ukraine instituted proceedings against Russia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on February 26, 2022, on the basis of the...
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Anne Peters,
Jérôme de Hemptinne
| Oct 11, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
A Plea for “Animalizing” the International Law of Armed Conflict Domestic, wild, or liminal, all animals are particularly vulnerable in wartime. They are often slaughtered, bombed, starved, or looted on a massive scale. When exercising war-related activities, animals...
