Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations

Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations

by | Sep 11, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting

Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations Consider the following scenario in the not-so-distant future: the Suwałki Gap, Autumn, 203X. In a desperate test of the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article V, mechanized forces of the...
Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

by | Sep 10, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers Few issues have attracted more attention in contemporary targeting law than reverberating effects from attacks. Much discussion has focused on attacks against traditional...
Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law

Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law

by | Aug 27, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting

Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law Since the middle of July 2026, Ukrainian long-range drones have struck more than twenty warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer. By August 5, Deutsche Welle estimated the company’s...
Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

by | Aug 25, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, Targeting

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article “Target Selection by Autonomous Weapons Systems: What Does the Duty of Target Verification Require?,” published as an Exeter Centre for...
Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello Targeting

Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello Targeting

by | Jul 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting

Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello Targeting There is a growing tendency to devise a double targeting criterion for attacks: one for jus ad bellum (JAB); and one for jus in bello (JIB), and to require that the conditions for each are met so that an attack or other...
Dual-Purpose Objects

Dual-Purpose Objects

by , | Jul 13, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting

Dual-Purpose Objects Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ recently published article “On the Purpose Limb of the Military Objective Test under the Law of Targeting” published in volume 64 of Military Law and Law of War Review. The concept of dual-use...