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Aidan Winn
| May 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Human Rights, Policy, Weapons Law
National Security Memorandum 20 and the Challenge of Operational End-Use Monitoring Today, May 8, was the deadline for the Departments of Defense (DoD) and State to answer tough questions about how U.S. supplied weapons are being used in today’s conflicts, including...
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Dan Maurer
| Apr 24, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy, Use of Force
The Department of Defense’s In Extremis Legal Challenges During Modern Warfare A Department of Defense (DoD) lawyer has for a client an organization with a remarkable number of dilemmas, all of which must be resolved (or at least addressed) lawfully, consistent with...
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Chris Jenks
| Jan 9, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Policy
Year Ahead – The U.S. DoD Replicator Initiative and the Acquisition Process for Autonomous Weapons On August 28, 2023, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Replicator Initiative (Replicator), which is “aimed at directly countering the People’s...
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Dan Maurer
| Jan 5, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
The U.S. DoD’s New Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Policy and “Harm Resulting From” Military Operations In a much-celebrated move in late December 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) made good on its promise to publish an enterprise-wide policy on...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Dec 21, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Targeting
The New U.S. Department of Defense Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response On August 25, 2022, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III approved and released the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP)—an action plan that creates new...