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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Use of Force
Retaliation, Retribution, and Punishment and International Law On April 13, Iran launched a massive missile and drone attack on Israel. Hezbollah and Houthi attacks took place contemporaneously. Israel, alongside forces from France, the United Kingdom, the United...
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Himanil Raina
| Apr 15, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Attacks on Merchant Shipping: Which State Has the Right to Respond in Self-Defence? On April 13, 2024, Iranian special forces seized the Portuguese flagged MSC Aries near the Strait of Hormuz as it sailed towards the Nhava Sheva port in India. The ship, which...
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Adam S. Reitz
| Apr 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Wounded and Sick
Hors De Combat: Clarifying the U.S. Law of War Manual The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School instructs on international protections for the wounded and sick, one of the many aspects of the Geneva Conventions emphasized to both seasoned and new...
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Marco Sassòli
| Apr 3, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
New Challenges and Old Problems for International Humanitarian Law This post provides some reflections based upon the experience of writing the second edition of the book International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Controversies, and Solutions to Problems Arising in...
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Angela Morello
| Feb 21, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Regulating Military Force Series, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – Low-Intensity Cyber Operations and Regulation of the Resort to Force Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion,...