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Robert Lawless
| Sep 5, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Operation Spider Web and Instrumentalizing Civilian Objects On 1 June 2025, in one of the boldest operations of the war, Ukraine carried out a massive surprise attack against Russian military installations. The attack, known as Operation Spider Web, was carried out by...
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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...
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Julia Grignon
| Apr 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Why the Term “Humanitarian Corridor” is a Misleading Expression Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic & Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh...
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Michael W. Meier
| Apr 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Protecting Civilians During Invasion Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic and Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh volume of the Lieber Studies...
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Ken Watkin
| Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...
