Defeat: Meanings, Consequences, Law, and Doctrine

Defeat: Meanings, Consequences, Law, and Doctrine

Defeat: Meanings, Consequences, Law, and Doctrine Victory. Defeat. Two seemingly straightforward words that capture the big-picture objectives and results of war. As many current and recent conflicts over the past few decades demonstrate, however, the reality is...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Why Yahya Sinwar Was Not Hors de Combat

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Why Yahya Sinwar Was Not Hors de Combat

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Why Yahya Sinwar Was Not Hors de Combat On or about October 17, 2024, members of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) killed Yahya Sinwar, the political leader of Hamas and a suspected mastermind behind the October 7, 2023 attack that...
Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration

Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration

Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pipelines constructed by a Russian State-controlled company called Gazprom to transport 110 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year from the Russian Federation under the...
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer

Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer

Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published two longer works on the subjects of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions  and besieged forces’ legal...
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Taliban Combatant Immunity in Non-International Armed Conflict

United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Taliban Combatant Immunity in Non-International Armed Conflict

United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Taliban Combatant Immunity in Non-International Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is part of a two-post symposium on a pretrial hearing in the case United States v. Najibullah. An introductory post by Professor Sean...