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Alexander Gilder
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Legal Position of UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon The United Nations has reported several incidents over recent weeks involving the organization’s peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) maintains numerous positions in its...
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Amichai Cohen,
Yuval Shany
| Oct 11, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Use of Force
“Well, it Depends”: The Explosive Pagers Attack Revisited On 17 September, 2024, thousands of pagers distributed by Hezbollah to its operatives in Lebanon and Syria exploded. On the following day, hundreds of walkie talkies used by Hezbollah operatives also exploded....
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Chris Jenks
| Oct 4, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, United States v Najibullah Symposium
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Taliban Combatant Immunity in Non-International Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is part of a two-post symposium on a pretrial hearing in the case United States v. Najibullah. An introductory post by Professor Sean...
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James A. Schoettler, Jr
| Sep 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The July 2023 Revision of the DoD Law of War Manual and Customary International Law Customary international law (CIL) is an important source of legally binding rules applicable in armed conflict. Where a party to a conflict has not ratified a key international...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Sep 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Targeting
A Policy Approach for Addressing the “Cyber Attacks” and “Data as an Object” Debates Among the issues examined at this week’s International Society of Military Law and the Law of War’s annual Silent Leges Inter Arma? (In Times of War, the Law Falls Silent?) Conference...
