A Policy Approach for Addressing the “Cyber Attacks” and “Data as an Object” Debates

A Policy Approach for Addressing the “Cyber Attacks” and “Data as an Object” Debates

A Policy Approach for Addressing the “Cyber Attacks” and “Data as an Object” Debates Among the issues examined at this week’s International Society of Military Law and the Law of War’s annual Silent Leges Inter Arma? (In Times of War, the Law Falls Silent?) Conference...
Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict

Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict

Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict As I noted in my “2024 Year Ahead” post, I am worried that the law of armed conflict (LOAC) faces an array of threats to its application on the battlefield and beyond. The post set out five that I find especially...
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Jus ad Bellum and LOAC Obligations and the Evolving Nature of the Conflict

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Jus ad Bellum and LOAC Obligations and the Evolving Nature of the Conflict

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Jus ad Bellum and LOAC Obligations and the Evolving Nature of the Conflict According to the New York Times, some senior American officials have concluded Israel has achieved all it can militarily in the Gaza Strip. It reports...
Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr On Wednesday morning, Israel killed the Chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. To do so, it reportedly...
Under Siege: LOAC Obligations of the Besieged Party

Under Siege: LOAC Obligations of the Besieged Party

Under Siege: LOAC Obligations of the Besieged Party Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published a longer work on the subject of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions as both a post and an inaugural Lieber Institute White Paper. The post below...