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Thomas E. Ayres
| Dec 30, 2020 | AoW Posts, Space Law, Topics
A Review of U.S. Space Force’s First Year The newest branch of the U.S. military, the United States Space Force, was mandated by Congress and signed into law and existence by the President on December 19, 2019. The Space Force Professionals, now called...
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Durward Johnson,
Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 22, 2020 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Topics
The Duty to Investigate War Crimes On November 19, 2020, a report of the Australian Defence Force’s Inspector-General was released following a four-year investigation into allegations of unlawful killings and mistreatment of non-combatants and persons...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 15, 2020 | AoW Posts, Detention, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Updated Commentary to the Third Geneva Convention is a remarkable feat of scholarship worthy of serious academic attention. It leaves almost no interpretive stone...
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Jeroen van den Boogaard
| Dec 11, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Reimagining IHL Principles Part II: A New Framework Part II: A New Framework for IHL Principles To open the debate, in my previous post I argued that military necessity, humanity, chivalry, and proportionality are not IHL principles. Rather, they are either...
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Jeroen van den Boogaard
| Dec 8, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Reimagining IHL Principles Part I: The Wrong Principles Part I: We Have Been Using the Wrong Principles Most textbooks and State military manuals on the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law (IHL), contain a chapter entitled “the principles of IHL.”...
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Jeffrey S. Thurnher
| Dec 2, 2020 | Accountability, AoW Posts, State Responsibility, Topics
Mercenaries on the Battlefield: What Legal Advisors Must Know Mercenaries … are useless and dangerous. And if a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure… — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Mercenaries have been...
