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Sze Hong Lam
| Oct 6, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Asia-Pacific Journal Series, Blog
Asia-Pacific Journal Series – Can We Design Military AI to Follow IHL by Default? Editors’ note: This post appears as part of a series highlighting articles in a recent volume of the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Law, on which presentations were made at a...
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Mitch Topaloglu
| Sep 11, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting
Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations Consider the following scenario in the not-so-distant future: the Suwałki Gap, Autumn, 203X. In a desperate test of the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article V, mechanized forces of the...
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Robert Kolb
| Aug 19, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict
Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter – Present and Past Modern international humanitarian law (IHL) protects prisoners against attack or mistreatment from the moment they surrender or do something akin to surrender. Relevant provisions include Articles...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 8, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
War Booty in the Modern Law of Armed Conflict There is an often unnoticed lexical (and, by extension, substantive) controversy over the survival of war booty under the modern law of armed conflict. Most authors concede that this long-standing institution of the law of...
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Evin Stovall,
Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 22, 2026 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Guilty Unless Proven Innocent: A Critique of Ali Kushayb Judgment In its recent judgment, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Ali Kushayb of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity. A Janjaweed militia leader who operated in Darfur in 2003–2004,...
