by Eric Jensen, Carolyn Sharp | Feb 9, 2022 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Weapons Law
Reentering the Loop The warfighting advantages of using lethal autonomous systems, and the potential costs of not using them, seem to guarantee their role in future armed conflict. This post argues that optimizing their effectiveness involves not only improving their...
by Brian L. Cox | Jan 27, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting, Weapons Law
Why Binding Limitations on Autonomous Weapons Will Remain Elusive Recent calls to abandon existing and ongoing legal processes to develop regulations for autonomous weapons should be evaluated cautiously or even suspiciously. This post proposes a more productive path...
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,...