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Lena E. Whitehead,
Aaron Waldo
| Nov 26, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Maritime
Vessels of War How can vessels be used in war? Are rights and obligations vested in armed forces personnel or in the naval platforms themselves? Combatancy in land warfare is fairly straightforward. Persons sanctioned by and under the control of a State have...
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Charles N. Pede
| Nov 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
Mind the Gap: The COIN Hangover & DoD’s New Policy to Protect Civilians on the Battlefield The Department of Defense (DoD) recently released a bold new policy, a DoD Instruction titled “Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response,” that aims to reduce civilian harm on...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Nov 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
NATO Interoperability When Targeting Indispensable Objects A recent Lieber Paper strikes an optimistic note concerning legal interoperability, arguing that the dissimilarities stemming from uneven treaty membership between NATO allies are less significant than they...
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Masoud Zamani,
Amirabbas Kiani
| Nov 13, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
A Conflict in Suspense: General Close of Military Operations in the Iran-Israel Conflict In April 2024, hostilities between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran intensified significantly, with both sides engaging in direct military operations within each other’s...
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Carrie F. Ricci
| Nov 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
U.S. Army General Counsel: Speech to the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War Editor’s note: The Honorable Carrie Ricci, General Counsel of the U.S. Army, offered the following remarks to the International Society for Military Law and the Law of...
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Sean Watts
| Nov 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, United States v Najibullah Symposium
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – The Ruling Editors’ note: This post is part of a symposium on a pretrial hearing in the case United States v. Najibullah. An introductory post by Professor Sean Watts provides background on the case and the hearing. On Friday, 1...
