Nova 2, Legion-X, and the AI Political Declaration
by Hitoshi Nasu | Nov 27, 2023 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Nova 2, Legion-X, and the AI Political Declaration The race to develop autonomous weapons systems for military deployment has entered a new phase, with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the navigation of small drones in active combat. In the...
2023 DoD Manual Revision – The Civilian Presumption Misnomer
by Hitoshi Nasu, Sean Watts | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Humanitarian Protection, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – The Civilian Presumption Misnomer (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.) The changes made to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Law of War Manual...
ICJ Ruling on Iran’s Proxy War: The United States Must Pay
by Hitoshi Nasu | Apr 4, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, State Responsibility
ICJ Ruling on Iran’s Proxy War: The United States Must Pay On March 30, the International Court of Justice issued a ruling on financial measures that the United States had adopted against Iranian assets. The case was brought by Iran, seeking to challenge the legality...
Ukraine Symposium – The THeMIS Bounty Part II: Stealing Enemy Technology
by Hitoshi Nasu, Christopher Malis | Dec 16, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The THeMIS Bounty Part II: Stealing Enemy Technology In Part I of this post, we considered whether the seizure of the Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System (THeMIS) by Russian troops on the battlefield of Ukraine, acting on a bounty issued by...