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Ronald Alcala
| May 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – Captured Enemy Weapons The Russian military has fielded a new weapon in its conflict with Ukraine. In recent weeks, at least one frontline Russian unit was observed operating an American-made Bradley M2A2 infantry fighting vehicle, and Russia is...
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Gary Pattison
| Mar 11, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
Booby-traps and “Apparently Harmless” Portable Objects Recent hostilities in eastern Europe and the Middle East have generated significant interest in issues of law of armed conflict (LOAC) compliance. Notably, several incidents have led to close scrutiny of the LOAC...
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Ken Watkin
| Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
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...
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Jonathan Kwik
| Oct 11, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Anti-AI Countermeasures in Warfare: Terra Incognita for IHL? In a small town under occupation by Alpha, an utterly baffling bloodbath occurred. Dozens of civilians coming home from the Friday market were gunned down by Alpha’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered...