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Pei-Lun Tsai,
Rob McLaughlin,
Hitoshi Nasu
| Aug 21, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Taiwan’s New Rules of Engagement In July 2024, Taiwan’s military released to the public its rules of engagement (ROE) prior to testing their effectiveness in the annual Han Kuang exercises, which took place on July 22-26. Taiwan developed the ROE in 2017 and revised...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Jan 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Houthi Operations in the Red Sea and LOAC? CAPT (ret.) Pete Pedrozo has recently provided an excellent update on escalating maritime threats and operations by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea area. As he has noted, these attacks are asserted by the perpetrators as...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Dec 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea In an Articles of War post earlier this year, Ben Rothchild and Mark Jessup addressed the under-appreciated challenges—operational, navigational, and legal—posed by the relatively extensive mine-laying...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Nov 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – After the Conflict: A UN Transitional Administration in Gaza? Recent reporting around potential international involvement in the management of post-conflict Gaza has focussed on the idea of a multinational—perhaps a UN—peacekeeping...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Jan 30, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Law of Armed Conflict, the Law of Naval Warfare, and a PRC blockade of Taiwan In discussions of possible Peoples Republic of China (PRC) military courses of action against Taiwan that rise to the level of an armed conflict, the likelihood of a PRC naval and air...
