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Hitoshi Nasu
| Mar 11, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Invisible Soldiers Images of drone strikes, hypersonic missiles, and directed energy weapons have cultivated imagination of how war might be fought in the future. Meanwhile, on-board cameras and satellites have made modern battlefields more transparent and accessible...
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Peter S. Konchak
| Feb 14, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Ceasefire in International Armed Conflict: Implications for Jus Ad Bellum Self-Defense In recent months, various commentators have proposed that Ukraine should agree to a ceasefire with Russia as a means of ending the ongoing hostilities of the Russo-Ukrainian War....
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – The Ibn Sina Hospital Raid and International Humanitarian Law On Monday, an Israeli security forces team conducted a raid into the Ibn Sina Hospital in the West Bank. During the raid, Mohammed Jalamneh, a Hamas commander, was killed....
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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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Kevin S. Coble,
John C. Tramazzo
| Dec 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – Hostage Rescue Operations and the Law of Armed Conflict Last month, during a week-long ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Hamas released 110 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners. Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)...
