by Marten Zwanenburg | Oct 21, 2020
Biometrics on the Battlefield We use biometrics on a daily basis. You need only think of unlocking your phone with your fingerprint, using iris recognition to pass through airport security, or the biometrics integrated into your passport. Considering the...
by Chris Jenks | Oct 14, 2020
The Efficacy of the U.S. Army’s Law of War Training Program On July 2, 2020, the Department of Defense reissued DoD Directive 2311.01, the DoD Law of War Program.* Under the previous Directive, issued in 2006, Secretaries of the Military Departments were required to...
by Joseph B. Berger III | Oct 8, 2020
The Importance of Clarity and Flexibility in the Law Adherence to the law of armed conflict remains a bedrock value of professional militaries. The legal obligation of any professional military to wage war in a just and lawful manner remains unquestioned. Yet...
by Aurel Sari | Oct 1, 2020
NATO in Outer Space: A Domain Too Far? This post examines whether Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is applicable to armed attacks in outer space. NATO nations have recently recognized outer space as a new operational domain for the Alliance. Although the...
by Durward Johnson | Sep 24, 2020
The UN Soleimani Report and the U.S. Article 51 Notification On July 9, 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions released a report on the legality of targeted killing by drone strikes. The backdrop for the report is the...
by Rob Mclaughlin | Sep 17, 2020
Whither Recognition of Belligerency? Delineating, defining, and dealing with how the law of armed conflict applies to civil wars and other non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) has presented constant legal challenges over the last two decades. Numerous...
