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Stuart Casey-Maslen
| Apr 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
The Disarmament Treaties Prohibiting Anti-Personnel Mines and Cluster Munitions: Separating Fact from Fiction In recent months, there has been considerable criticism in scholarship, and in opinion editorials in several newspapers, of the content and impact of the two...
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Ken Watkin
| Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...
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William H. Boothby
| Jan 10, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting, Weapons Law
The Drone Threat, the Laser Response, and the Law – Part I In conflicts during the last few years, unmanned air weapons, commonly referred to as drones, have increasingly been used to undertake attacks of ground targets. These attacks have recently involved large...
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Noël Mfuranzima
| Dec 23, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Jus post Bellum as a Key to Sustainable Peace after War Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article-length work, “Jus post bellum: Scope and Assessment of the Applicable Legal Framework” in the International Review of the Red Cross. International...
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Jeffrey Lovitky
| Nov 6, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, Targeting
Understanding the Distinction Between Property Destruction Governed by Hague Article 23(g) and the Rules Governing Attacks This analysis follows my prior post explaining the obligations imposed by Article 23(g) of the Hague Regulations of 1907, annexed to Hague...