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Brian Jones
| Aug 5, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Surrender as a Weapon: Operational Paralysis and the Law of War In the opening days of the Operation Desert Storm ground campaign, Iraqi Soldiers surrendered by the tens of thousands. They surrendered to armor, to infantry, and in one famous instance, to a remotely...
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Emily Crawford
| Jul 31, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – Prisoners of War and a Taiwan Conflict Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region (Douglas Guilfoyle & Jennifer Maddocks eds. 2026), the...
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Davit Khachatryan
| Jul 29, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Where the Environment Sits: Proportionality and Strikes on Russian Oil Infrastructure Through the spring and summer of 2026, Ukraine turned its long-range drone fleet into a systematic weapon against Russia’s refining sector. By late June, drones had struck eight of...
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Aurel Sari
| Jul 22, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – LOAC and Information Warfare in the Indo-Pacific Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region (Douglas Guilfoyle & Jennifer Maddocks eds. 2026),...
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Ronald Alcala,
Hitoshi Nasu
| Jul 13, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Dual-Purpose Objects Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ recently published article “On the Purpose Limb of the Military Objective Test under the Law of Targeting” published in volume 64 of Military Law and Law of War Review. The concept of dual-use...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 8, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
War Booty in the Modern Law of Armed Conflict There is an often unnoticed lexical (and, by extension, substantive) controversy over the survival of war booty under the modern law of armed conflict. Most authors concede that this long-standing institution of the law of...
