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Davit Khachatryan
| Jul 29, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Where the Environment Sits: Proportionality and Strikes on Russian Oil Infrastructure Through the spring and summer of 2026, Ukraine turned its long-range drone fleet into a systematic weapon against Russia’s refining sector. By late June, drones had struck eight of...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 20, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting
Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello Targeting There is a growing tendency to devise a double targeting criterion for attacks: one for jus ad bellum (JAB); and one for jus in bello (JIB), and to require that the conditions for each are met so that an attack or other...
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William Casey Biggerstaff
| Jul 7, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, Law of Armed Conflict
Ukraine’s Attacks on Oil Infrastructure and the “War-Sustaining” Debate On 16 June, Ukraine launched a drone strike on Russia’s Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery, an oil processing facility that sources a third of the fuel supply for the Russian capital and its surrounding...
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Raoul Cardellini Leipertz
| May 27, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Space Law, Targeting
From Imagery to Targeting: Commercial Satellite Support in War Commercial Earth Observation (EO) and geospatial intelligence firms now provide near-real-time imagery and analysis during active hostilities. Existing international humanitarian law (IHL) applies to these...
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Mark Lattimer
| May 18, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Dual-Use Objects and Dual-Purpose Attacks Editors’ note: This post highlights work in the author’s recent chapter, “Objective and Subjective Tests for Determining Violations of the Law of Targeting: The Unreasonable Commander and the Guilty Mind,” appearing in Volume...
