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Ken Watkin
| Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, 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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Ken Watkin
| Oct 10, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again In July 2024, CNN reported that American and German intelligence agencies had thwarted a Russian plan to kill Armin Papperger, the chief executive of Rheinmetall, a company known as “the largest and most...
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Ken Watkin
| Sep 4, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
International Law and Intelligence Gathering: Mind the Gaps Intelligence gathering is a fundamental element of both statecraft and the conduct of hostilities. Its integral role in armed conflict is evident in the Israel intelligence service, the Shin Bet, having...
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Ken Watkin
| Oct 18, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – Strategy and Self-Defence: Israel and its War with Iran The October 7, 2023 assault by Hamas terrorists into Israel and their perpetration of horrific war crimes has prompted several political, operational, and legal questions about the...
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Ken Watkin
| May 22, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Mitt Regan’s Drone Strike – Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing and the CHMR-AP Mitt Regan, a widely respected Georgetown University Professor of National Security Law, has written a very timely and thought provoking book, Drone Strike—Analyzing the Impacts of...
