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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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Michael N. Schmitt
| Sep 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Targeting
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...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Sep 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, 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...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Use of Force
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...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force
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...
