The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda

The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda

The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda In late January 2025, a rebel alliance involving the militia group M23 seized control over the town of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Year Ahead – U.S. Department of Defense and Space Force Commercial Space Strategies

Year Ahead – U.S. Department of Defense and Space Force Commercial Space Strategies

Year Ahead – U.S. Department of Defense and Space Force Commercial Space Strategies Editors’ note: We are pleased to announce that Articles of War has recently added several thematic editors to our staff. Each editor has contributed a post to this year’s Year...
Killing General Kirillov: Questions and Answers

Killing General Kirillov: Questions and Answers

Killing General Kirillov: Questions and Answers On December 17, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, and his assistant were killed in a bomb explosion outside his Moscow apartment building. The bomb...
Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State

Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State

Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State The ongoing conflicts between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah continue to raise complex questions of international law. Some of these involve issues of State responsibility, requiring an...
Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration

Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration

Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pipelines constructed by a Russian State-controlled company called Gazprom to transport 110 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year from the Russian Federation under the...