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Gerald Mako,
Aasim Al-Thani
| May 4, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Human Responsibility Retained: U.S. Positions on Judgment and Oversight for LAWS Editors’ note: This is the fourth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international...
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Samuel White
| Dec 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Weapons Law
Tripwires to Trojans: Updating the Law of Booby-traps for the Digital Age Articles of War has featured discussion of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) rules concerning booby-traps (see, e.g., here, here, here, and here). All have been based in the land domain. I am...
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Stuart Casey-Maslen
| Apr 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
The Disarmament Treaties Prohibiting Anti-Personnel Mines and Cluster Munitions: Separating Fact from Fiction In recent months, there has been considerable criticism in scholarship, and in opinion editorials in several newspapers, of the content and impact of the two...
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Ronald Alcala
| May 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Weapons Law
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...
