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Nate Bankson,
Keoni Medici
| May 19, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict
The Place of Judge Advocates on the Next Battlefield President Biden refers to the current decade as “the decisive decade” in the National Security Strategy (NSS). Consistent with the NSS, the National Defense Strategy (NDS) articulates the Department of Defense...
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Dan Maurer
| Feb 21, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
A State’s Legal Duty to Warn its own Civilians on Consequences of Direct Participation in Hostilities Much has been written – both in the media and on this site – about the innovative and tactically-effective use of a new digital app, ePPO, by Ukrainian civilians in...
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Marten Zwanenburg
| Dec 19, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Dutch Judgment on IHL Compliance in Chora District, Afghanistan On 23 November 2022, the district court of the Hague handed down its judgment in a case brought against the State of the Netherlands by relatives of persons killed during fighting in the Chora district,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Nov 25, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Further Thoughts on Russia’s Campaign against Ukraine’s Power Infrastructure On November 23, Russia mounted 70 missile and five drone attacks against Ukraine’s power infrastructure. Cities across the nation, including Kyiv, went dark. Without...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Nov 4, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Using Cellphones to Gather and Transmit Military Information, A Postscript In a previous post, Major Casey Biggerstaff and I analyzed the legal consequences of Ukrainian civilians using the “ePPO” application (app) to report incoming Russian air...
