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Peter S. Konchak
| Apr 9, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Rules of Engagement
Rules of Engagement in Large Scale Combat Operations As the focus of U.S. military doctrine and contingency planning shifts from counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns toward large-scale combat operations (LSCO), Judge Advocates must anticipate changing operational law...
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Marco Sassòli
| Apr 3, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
New Challenges and Old Problems for International Humanitarian Law This post provides some reflections based upon the experience of writing the second edition of the book International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Controversies, and Solutions to Problems Arising in...
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Alexander Wentker
| Apr 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Joining in Wars Editor’s note: This post draws on the author’s paper with Miles Jackson and Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, “Identifying co-parties to armed conflict in international law: How states, international organizations and armed groups become parties to war” (2024)...
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Jeremy A. Rabkin
| Mar 29, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Why We Fight Matters to How We Fight We have all been taught that jus in bello (the law regarding the conduct of war) is a distinct set of rules from jus ad bellum (law regarding resort to force). It is a convenient distinction for many purposes. It is particularly...
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Nolan Koon,
Sean Zehtab
| Mar 25, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Weapons Law
MARWAN 1: How U.S. Central Command Transferred Seized Iranian Ammunition to Ukraine On December 1, 2022, the USS Lewis B. Puller, an expeditionary mobile base ship assigned to the U.S. 5th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, intercepted a fishing trawler, the...
