by Kurt Sanger, Peter Pascucci | Dec 10, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Weapons Law
Hays Parks’s Influence on Cyberspace Operations Capabilities The recent Articles of War series honoring Hays Parks was a fitting tribute to a great American lawyer that reintroduced his work to the military legal community and its newest generations. The series...
by Carolyn Sharp | Nov 5, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting, Weapons Law
Cognitive Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CLAWS) With the debut of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in combat, opponents of LAWS have called on States to fast-track the creation of international law that either bans the use of these weapons or mandates...
by Joshua F. Berry, Michael W. Meier | Oct 20, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Hays Parks Symposium, Weapons Law
Hays Parks on the Means and Methods of Warfare Hays Parks was one of the leading voices of the United States’ view of the law of war over the last 50 years, and one of the founding fathers of the field of operational law in the U.S. military. Both of us are honored to...
by Sean Watts, Winston Williams, Ronald Alcala | Oct 6, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Hays Parks Symposium, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Weapons Law
Symposium Intro: Hays Parks’s Influence on the Law of War Most developments and codifications of the law of war have been responses to the evolving character of warfare. Indeed, a timeline of law of war treaties reads like a chronicle of changes in the tactics,...
by Hitoshi Nasu | Sep 23, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
LAWS Debate at the United Nations: Moving Beyond Deadlock The United Nations is once again hosting a Group of Governmental Experts tasked to report on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Further debate on this subject at the...
by Heather Tregle, Durward Johnson, John Cherry | Nov 6, 2020 | AoW Posts, Targeting, Topics, Weapons Law
The U.S. Landmine Policy Complies with International Law In late January, the United States replaced the Obama Administration’s 2016 landmine policy, which was first introduced in 2014. That policy had proscribed the use of antipersonnel landmines beyond the...