by Helen Durham, Kobi Leins | Jan 3, 2024
Year Ahead – The Future is at the Edges: Essential Themes for 2024 2023 has witnessed in real-time, and often on social media, the brutality inherent in the conduct of hostilities. Faster visibility, endless opportunities for global communications, and...
by Kobi Leins, Helen Durham | Aug 28, 2023
2023 DoD Manual Revision – To Shoot, or Not to Shoot . . . Automation and the Presumption of Civilian Status (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) One of the most important...
by Helen Durham, Kobi Leins | May 26, 2023
Life, Love & Lethality: History and Delegating Death on the Battlefield In military circles, the 1939 Einstein-Szilard letter to President Roosevelt is a well-known document that changed the course of history. It was instrumental in the establishment of the...