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Robert Kolb
| Aug 19, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict
Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter – Present and Past Modern international humanitarian law (IHL) protects prisoners against attack or mistreatment from the moment they surrender or do something akin to surrender. Relevant provisions include Articles...
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Lia Brazil
| Aug 17, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC
Medical Neutrality as a Contested Legal Concept in the 1899-1902 South African War Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s recently published article “Neutrality as a Contested Concept in International Humanitarian Law: Red Cross Men in the South...
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Brian Jones
| Aug 5, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Surrender as a Weapon: Operational Paralysis and the Law of War In the opening days of the Operation Desert Storm ground campaign, Iraqi Soldiers surrendered by the tens of thousands. They surrendered to armor, to infantry, and in one famous instance, to a remotely...
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Emily Crawford
| Jul 31, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – Prisoners of War and a Taiwan Conflict Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region (Douglas Guilfoyle & Jennifer Maddocks eds. 2026), the...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 8, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
War Booty in the Modern Law of Armed Conflict There is an often unnoticed lexical (and, by extension, substantive) controversy over the survival of war booty under the modern law of armed conflict. Most authors concede that this long-standing institution of the law of...
