by
Gerald Mako,
Lemuel Valdez
| Oct 13, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog
Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part I Observing that modern warfare is ever more reliant on networks, data, sensors, and software, all of which are vulnerable to attack, has the novelty factor of a field manual...
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Gerald Mako
| Sep 9, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Emerging Technologies
Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the tenth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....
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Michael Carey
| Aug 11, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog
Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Battlefield Maps for Drone Autonomy The requirement that a human approve every lethal engagement, known as human-in-the-loop (HITL), is effectively dead, a casualty of the war in Ukraine. The requirement that commanders bear responsibility...
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Gerald Mako
| Aug 4, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Compliance by Design IV: LOAC in the European Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the ninth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....
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William Casey Biggerstaff
| Jul 7, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Ukraine’s Attacks on Oil Infrastructure and the “War-Sustaining” Debate On 16 June, Ukraine launched a drone strike on Russia’s Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery, an oil processing facility that sources a third of the fuel supply for the Russian capital and its surrounding...
