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Rob McLaughlin
| Dec 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea In an Articles of War post earlier this year, Ben Rothchild and Mark Jessup addressed the under-appreciated challenges—operational, navigational, and legal—posed by the relatively extensive mine-laying...
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Tom Buitelaar,
Welmoet Wels
| Dec 11, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Policy
Pessimism Does Not Help Fragile States “An uncomfortable reality” is the title and conclusion of a recently published report that evaluates Dutch national participation in international peace and security missions. The report highlights the successes of the Dutch...
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Michael Kelly
| Dec 4, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Policy
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – Time for the Arab League and EU to Step Up on Gaza Security When the Israel-Hamas conflict eventually comes to an enduring ceasefire, the aftermath will require a constitutional settlement. This will not be easy, but while a new...
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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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Todd F. Buchwald
| Mar 29, 2023 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Emerging Technologies, Policy
U.S. Support to the ICC (in AI-Generated Iambic Pentameter) I never imagined I would submit for publication a poem from Chat-GPT about U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that is what I am doing today. The background is as follows. Each day,...
