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Ronald Alcala
| May 20, 2024
Caltrop: An Ancient Weapon in Modern Warfare Recent reports indicate that Ukraine has modified drones to deliver and disperse a weapon of ancient design in its fight against Russia. The weapon, known as a caltrop, is a spiked device that can be strewn in large...
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Sean Watts,
Joshua F. Berry
| Aug 15, 2023
Articles of War Editorial Board Changes Executive Editor We are pleased to congratulate Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Alcala on his appointment as Executive Editor at the West Point Press. The newly established publishing arm of the United States Military Academy, West...
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Lieber Institute
| Apr 3, 2023
LTC Alcala Awarded ASIL’s Baxter Prize The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has awarded the 2023 Richard R. Baxter Military Writing Prize to Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Alcala for his paper “Cultural Evolution: Protecting ‘Digital Cultural...
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Ronald Alcala
| Feb 13, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – Field-Modified Weapons under the Law of War Combatants in armed conflict may choose to modify weapons in the field for a variety of reasons. They may modify them to improve their reliability. They may alter them to increase their range or accuracy....
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Ronald Alcala
| May 13, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict and the Future of Digital Cultural Property Various international instruments explicitly provide for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict. As conceived, the law was formulated to protect physical works...
