I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows
by 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,...
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer
by 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...
Anti-AI Countermeasures in Warfare: Terra Incognita for IHL?
by 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...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – South Sudanese Laws of War
by Marco Chol Ayat, Ruben SP Valfredo, Justin Monyping Ater | Aug 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – South Sudanese Laws of War Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s third edited volume of Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to the series,...