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Benjamin R. Farley,
Alka Pradhan
| Dec 27, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Searching for a Practical Legal Test for the End of Non-International Armed Conflicts Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Establishing a Practical Test for the End of Non-International Armed Conflict” appearing in the...
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Laurie R. Blank
| Nov 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Defeat: Meanings, Consequences, Law, and Doctrine Victory. Defeat. Two seemingly straightforward words that capture the big-picture objectives and results of war. As many current and recent conflicts over the past few decades demonstrate, however, the reality is...
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Sean Watts
| Oct 4, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, United States v Najibullah Symposium
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Introduction Almost as soon as hostilities between the United States and the Taliban and al Qaeda groups in Afghanistan began in 2001, important law of war questions emerged. In particular, early stages of the conflict provoked...
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Thea Charlotte Andersen
| Feb 23, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Regulating Military Force Series, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – Enduringly Unwilling and Unable: The Syrian Chapter of the Forever Wars Saga Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force:...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
William Casey Biggerstaff
| Aug 5, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Weapons Law
The al-Zawahiri Strike and the Law of Armed Conflict Just after daybreak on July 31, the United States killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s former deputy and the current leader of al-Qaeda. Two Hellfire missiles struck him on the balcony of his home in Kabul....
