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Takahiro Abe
| Dec 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Space Law
A Japanese Perspective on Treaty Obligations Regarding Attacks To, From, or Within Space As States begin to regard outer space as a war-fighting domain, Japan has followed suit. Although it had long interpreted “peaceful” use of outer space in the Outer Space Treaty...
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Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
| Dec 8, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Maritime, Targeting
The Ukrainian Attacks Against Gambian-Flagged Oil Tankers in the Black Sea On October 28, 2025, Ukrainian so-called “Sea Baby drones” attacked two Gambian-flagged oil tankers, the Kairos and Virat. Whereas the vessels were severely damaged, no casualties were...
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Jonathan Kwik,
Adriaan Wiese
| Dec 5, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Can AI Teach Itself to Abuse IHL-Protected Indicators? In war, there is every incentive to deceive. Thousands of years ago, humans learnt that misleading the enemy, dissimulating one’s intentions, and misrepresenting the truth often led to tangible tactical and...
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Eric Pouw,
Peter Pijpers
| Aug 22, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
CyCon 2025 Series – AI-Enabled Offensive Cyber Operations: Legal Challenges in the Shadows of Automation Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn,...
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Gary Corn
| Aug 5, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
Non-State Cyber Actors in the 12-Day War – The Gray Zone of LOAC, Part II Editors’ note: In a prior post Professor Gary Corn described recent cyber operations undertaken during conflict between Iran and Israel. He related details of the hacking group, Predatory...
