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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 16, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, Targeting, Use of Force
Russian Cyber Operations and Ukraine: The Legal Framework Last week, hostile cyber operations targeted approximately 70 Ukrainian government websites, including that of the Cabinet. Affected sites included Diia, the most widely used site for handling online government...
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Dan Maurer
| Sep 17, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
The Rhetoric of Retaliation The language we use to justify and describe legal constraints on personal conduct or grants of legal authority to our government is never totally free of bias, ambiguity, flawed premises, or unproveable assumptions. How we fix, manipulate,...
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Laurie R. Blank
| Mar 4, 2021 | AoW Posts, Topics, Use of Force
The Legitimate Aims of Self-Defense The United States’ strike on Iranian-backed militias along the Syria-Iraq border on February 25 and the accompanying justifications, communications, and explanations have produced a flurry of legal discourse across the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| 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...
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Aurel Sari
| Oct 1, 2020 | AoW Posts, Emerging Technologies, Space Law, Topics
NATO in Outer Space: A Domain Too Far? This post examines whether Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is applicable to armed attacks in outer space. NATO nations have recently recognized outer space as a new operational domain for the Alliance. Although the...
