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Aidan Winn
| May 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Human Rights, Policy, Weapons Law
National Security Memorandum 20 and the Challenge of Operational End-Use Monitoring Today, May 8, was the deadline for the Departments of Defense (DoD) and State to answer tough questions about how U.S. supplied weapons are being used in today’s conflicts, including...
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Dan Maurer
| Apr 24, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Use of Force
The Department of Defense’s In Extremis Legal Challenges During Modern Warfare A Department of Defense (DoD) lawyer has for a client an organization with a remarkable number of dilemmas, all of which must be resolved (or at least addressed) lawfully, consistent with...
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Tim Wood
| Mar 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, AWS Legal Review Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
AWS Legal Review Series – Inclusion of Quasi-Legal Considerations This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean Watts provides an overview of the series. At an Expert...
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Ryan Dowdy
| Feb 13, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
Multi-Domain Operations: Closing the Eighteenth Capability Gap After emerging from decades of counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, the Army identified seventeen capability gaps in its conventional warfighting capacity. Certainly, the doctrine and policies associated...
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Chris Jenks
| Jan 9, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Policy
Year Ahead – The U.S. DoD Replicator Initiative and the Acquisition Process for Autonomous Weapons On August 28, 2023, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Replicator Initiative (Replicator), which is “aimed at directly countering the People’s...
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Dan Maurer
| Jan 5, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
The U.S. DoD’s New Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Policy and “Harm Resulting From” Military Operations In a much-celebrated move in late December 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) made good on its promise to publish an enterprise-wide policy on...
