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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Targeting, Use of Force
Attacking the Quds Force and Affiliated Groups under the Jus ad Bellum On 28 January, a drone strike on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22 killed three soldiers and wounded 34. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a non-State militia group, claimed...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – The Ibn Sina Hospital Raid and International Humanitarian Law On Monday, an Israeli security forces team conducted a raid into the Ibn Sina Hospital in the West Bank. During the raid, Mohammed Jalamneh, a Hamas commander, was killed....
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Jeffrey Lovitky
| Jan 23, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Application of the Principle of Military Advantage in Determining Proportionality This post examines the concept of “concrete and direct military advantage” used for purposes of applying proportionality rules in targeting. It concludes that military...
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Arthur van Coller
| Jan 17, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Qassam Rockets, Weapon Reviews, and Collective Terror as a Targeting Strategy The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (AQB), in the pursuit of its objective to “obliterate” Israel,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Retaliatory Warfare and International Humanitarian Law On 29 December, Russia launched a massive country-wide drone and missile assault on Ukraine. Although Ukraine shot down 114 of the 158 inbound missiles, over 40 Ukrainian civilians died in the...
