by Sean Watts, Jennifer Maddocks | Feb 3, 2023
Prosecuting War Crimes Symposium – Introduction Last fall, with the generous support of the 15th Dean of the Academic Board, Brigadier General Shane Reeves, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point partnered with the U.S. State Department Office of...
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 Camilla Cooper | Feb 1, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – A Wagner Group Fighter in Norway In the early hours of Friday, January 13th, the alarm went off in a military border guard base in northern Norway. Someone had illegally crossed the border with Russia, and Norwegian conscripts were tasked to find...
by T. Nelson Collier | Feb 1, 2023
Afterwar: Veterans’ Care as a Law of War Imperative – Part II In a famous poster from 1917, a woman with a Red Cross armband stands behind a seated man with a bandaged head and closing eyes. She holds him in her arms. “In the Name of Mercy,” the text reads, “Give!”...
by Rob McLaughlin | Jan 30, 2023
The Law of Armed Conflict, the Law of Naval Warfare, and a PRC blockade of Taiwan In discussions of possible Peoples Republic of China (PRC) military courses of action against Taiwan that rise to the level of an armed conflict, the likelihood of a PRC naval and air...
by Alexandra Francis | Jan 27, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – The Impact of Sanctions on Humanitarian Aid The war in Ukraine highlights how humanitarian need and restrictive trade measures typically emerge simultaneously in times of conflict—and how the latter can interfere with the ability of humanitarian...
