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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 7, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Judging Battlefield Conduct Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article-length work, “The Rule of Law in Armed Conflict” published in volume 34 of the Minnesota Journal of International Law (2025). The rule of law is an appraisal concept that purports to...
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Charles N. Pede
| Nov 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
Mind the Gap: The COIN Hangover & DoD’s New Policy to Protect Civilians on the Battlefield The Department of Defense (DoD) recently released a bold new policy, a DoD Instruction titled “Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response,” that aims to reduce civilian harm on...
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Mar 11, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Invisible Soldiers Images of drone strikes, hypersonic missiles, and directed energy weapons have cultivated imagination of how war might be fought in the future. Meanwhile, on-board cameras and satellites have made modern battlefields more transparent and accessible...
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Klaudia Klonowska
| Feb 23, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Designing for Reasonableness: The Algorithmic Mediation of Reasonableness in Targeting Decisions Developments on current battlefields are proving that algorithmic decision-support systems are not a distant future, but a reality that military and civilian populations...
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Asaf Lubin
| Feb 13, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Big Data Volume
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Algorithms of Care: Military AI, Digital Rights, and the Duty of Constant Care Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of the...
