War, Law, and the Paths We Take

War, Law, and the Paths We Take

by | Jul 5, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Uncategorized

War, Law, and the Paths We Take I first met Sufyan Abbas in Tikrit, Iraq in the spring of 2004, when I was a first-tour Captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps assigned to First Infantry Division. Iraq, in that moment, was unstable and smouldering. The detrital effects of...
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq

Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq

by | Feb 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, LOAC History, Occupation

Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq ​A recent  New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about occupations under the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The...
President Biden’s First Use of Force and International Law

President Biden’s First Use of Force and International Law

by | Mar 1, 2021 | AoW Posts, Law of Armed Conflict, Topics, Use of Force

President Biden’s First Use of Force and International Law   On February 25, President Biden authorized the first use of military force since becoming President. The operation involved two F-15s dropping seven 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) bombs...