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Gavin Logan,
Kevin S. Coble
| Mar 4, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Terrorizing Civilians and the Law of Armed Conflict Reports from the Kherson Oblast, an area of Ukraine the Ukrainian military recaptured in November 2022, indicate that the Russian military is using drones to target Ukrainian civilians as part of...
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Ken Watkin
| Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...
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Mina Radončić,
Ash Stanley-Ryan
| Feb 12, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Presumption of Civilian Status in Cases of Doubt: A Vital Rule in Increasingly Unsettled Times Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Pro patria mori: When States Encourage Civilian Involvement in Armed Conflict” appearing in the...
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Alexander Hernandez,
Liz Hutton
| Jan 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
The Status of the U.S. Coast Guard’s People, Bases and Equipment, and Vessels Under LOAC The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) recently published an article highlighting the integral role the U.S. Coast Guard might play in a future high-intensity conflict. Set in the...
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Yusuke Saito
| Jan 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Indo-Pacific Legal Topics for Operational Lawyers The year 2024 was a time of increasing instability for global security. The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has resurrected the specter of a world war, in which North Korea is also involved. Perhaps related to...
