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Steven Haines
| Jul 17, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Protecting Schools in Armed Conflict In early July 2024, the BBC reported that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) had conducted an air strike on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. According to Palestinian sources, sixteen people were killed, with...
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Yahli Shereshevsky
| Jul 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume, Targeting
Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – The Application of LOAC in Domestic Courts and the Question of Expertise Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict (Sandesh Sivakumaran and Christian R....
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jun 28, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – The Gospel, Lavender, and the Law of Armed Conflict In November 2023, +972 Magazine and Local Call published a joint report on Israel Defense Force (IDF) targeting operations, labeling them a “mass assassination factory.” It...
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Klaudia Klonowska
| Jun 7, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Targeting
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – AI-Based Targeting in Gaza: Surveying Expert Responses and Refining the Debate The reported use of artificial intelligence-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS), in particular the Gospel and Lavender, by the Israel Defense...
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Mateusz Piatkowski,
Wiesław Goździewicz
| Jun 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Targeting
Precautions and Aerial Superiority or Supremacy In modern armed conflict, belligerents must control the air domain. Air supremacy or air superiority is a precondition for success in land and naval operations. Simultaneously, belligerents must exercise “constant care...
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Ronald Alcala
| May 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Weapons Law
Caltrop: An Ancient Weapon in Modern Warfare Recent reports indicate that Ukraine has modified drones to deliver and disperse a weapon of ancient design in its fight against Russia. The weapon, known as a caltrop, is a spiked device that can be strewn in large...
