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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Killing Nasrallah and the Law of Armed Conflict Last Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted air strikes against a Hezbollah command and control bunker in Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, which was located under an apartment complex. The attack, which followed IDF...
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Scott Sullivan
| Aug 28, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Targeting in the Black Box: The Need to Reprioritize AI Explainability States around the world are racing to leverage the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) to their own military advantage. In the coming decades, AI-based systems are expected to...
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Omar Yousef Shehabi,
Asaf Lubin
| Jan 24, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Algorithms of War: Military AI and the War in Gaza January brought with it a new phase in the war in Gaza. Earlier this month, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the “intense combat” stage of the war had ended, at least...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 11, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Year Ahead – International Humanitarian Law at Risk I leave 2023 behind, dismayed about the state of international humanitarian law (IHL) and concerned that its effectiveness on the battlefield is at risk. In this year-ahead post, I highlight five threats as...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 27, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – The IDF, Hamas, and the Duty to Warn On October 22, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued a joint statement “reiterat[ing] their support for Israel and its right to defend itself...
