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Mina Radončić,
Ash Stanley-Ryan
| Feb 12, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Presumption of Civilian Status in Cases of Doubt: A Vital Rule in Increasingly Unsettled Times Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Pro patria mori: When States Encourage Civilian Involvement in Armed Conflict” appearing in the...
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Ted Richard
| Jan 6, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Space Law
Year Ahead – U.S. Department of Defense and Space Force Commercial Space Strategies Editors’ note: We are pleased to announce that Articles of War has recently added several thematic editors to our staff. Each editor has contributed a post to this year’s Year...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 24, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Killing General Kirillov: Questions and Answers On December 17, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, and his assistant were killed in a bomb explosion outside his Moscow apartment building. The bomb...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published two longer works on the subjects of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions and besieged forces’ legal...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Killing Nasrallah and the Law of Armed Conflict Last Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted air strikes against a Hezbollah command and control bunker in Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, which was located under an apartment complex. The attack, which followed IDF...
