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Robert Kolb
| Sep 10, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Exceptions to the Separation Between the Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello According to canonic learning and overwhelming practice, the rules of the jus ad bellum and those of the jus in bello are separated in the sense that the application of each depends on its own...
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Davit Khachatryan
| Sep 8, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Baltic Defense Line: Military Necessity and Civilian Protection on NATO’s Eastern Flank Europe’s easternmost flank is undergoing one of the most strategically calibrated defensive preparations since the Cold War. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are coordinating the...
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Robert Lawless
| Sep 5, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Operation Spider Web and Instrumentalizing Civilian Objects On 1 June 2025, in one of the boldest operations of the war, Ukraine carried out a massive surprise attack against Russian military installations. The attack, known as Operation Spider Web, was carried out by...
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Eric Pouw,
Peter Pijpers
| Aug 22, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
CyCon 2025 Series – AI-Enabled Offensive Cyber Operations: Legal Challenges in the Shadows of Automation Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn,...
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Antonio Coco
| Aug 18, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
CyCon 2025 Series – Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: The Current State of International Law Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn,...
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Robert Kolb
| Aug 13, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Indirect or Reverberating Excessive Collateral Damage in Modern IHL Article 51(5)(b), of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 codifies the rule or principle of proportionality in offensive or defensive attacks in the following terms, Among...
