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Jes Rynkeby Knudsen
| Feb 9, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Military Objectives by Location Editors’ Note: This post is derived from a presentation given at the 2023 Israel Defense Forces Military Advocate General’s 4th International Conference on the Law of Armed Conflict. The rules relating to the targeting of military...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Targeting, Use of Force
Attacking the Quds Force and Affiliated Groups under the Jus ad Bellum On 28 January, a drone strike on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22 killed three soldiers and wounded 34. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a non-State militia group, claimed...
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Laura A. Dickinson
| Jan 30, 2024 | Accountability, AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Detention, Emerging Technologies, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Big Data Volume, Targeting, Use of Force, Weapons Law
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Big Data and Armed Conflict – Legal Issues Above and Below the Armed Conflict Threshold Editor’s note: This is the first post in a symposium addressing themes from a new book entitled Big Data and Armed Conflict: Legal...
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Omar Yousef Shehabi,
Asaf Lubin
| Jan 24, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Algorithms of War: Military AI and the War in Gaza January brought with it a new phase in the war in Gaza. Earlier this month, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the “intense combat” stage of the war had ended, at least...
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Jeffrey Lovitky
| Jan 23, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Application of the Principle of Military Advantage in Determining Proportionality This post examines the concept of “concrete and direct military advantage” used for purposes of applying proportionality rules in targeting. It concludes that military...
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Chiara Redaelli,
Carlos Arévalo
| Jan 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Criminal Organisations Party to an Armed Conflict and the Question of Targeting This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Targeting Drug Lords: Challenges to IHL Between lege lata and lege ferenda” appearing in the International Review of the Red...
