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Michael N. Schmitt,
Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Jul 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Under Siege: LOAC Obligations of the Besieged Party Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published a longer work on the subject of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions as both a post and an inaugural Lieber Institute White Paper. The post below...
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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...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Retaliatory Warfare and International Humanitarian Law On 29 December, Russia launched a massive country-wide drone and missile assault on Ukraine. Although Ukraine shot down 114 of the 158 inbound missiles, over 40 Ukrainian civilians died in the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – The Legal Protection of Hospitals during Armed Conflict The murder of Israeli civilians and the taking of hostages, including children, on October 7 provoked widespread outrage, and rightly so. But since then, that outrage has...
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Liisi Adamson
| Dec 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, State Responsibility, Targeting
Year in Review – 2023 2023 has witnessed not only a continuation of ongoing conflicts, including those in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh, but also the emergence of new hostilities. A notable addition to the global security landscape was the renewed armed conflict...
