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Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (180+ words) Military Objectives: Only the First Question This distinction limits the scope of the argument. Economic loss, social inconvenience, diminished administrative capacity, and loss of access to digital services do not become incidental civilian harm merely because they are foreseeable. The…...
Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (346+ words) The Israeli Defense Tech Powerhouse LOAC, Article 36, and Israel’s practice The sector that made the country into one of the world’s leading arms and indeed drone exporters is building on two important features: tightly integrated relationship between manufacturers; and the…...
Identifying NIAC Series - The Geography of War and the Nature of IHL
1+ week, 6+ day ago (251+ words) Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series features alternating posts with our friends at Armed Groups and International Law. The…...
Identifying NIAC Series - Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum
2+ week, 4+ day ago (182+ words) Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series features alternating posts with our friends at Armed Groups and International Law. The…...
Identifying NIAC Series??? The Concept of Non-International Armed Conflict??? Towards a singular definition of NIACs?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (108+ words) The following post by Gloria Gaggioli focuses on the question of a single definition of NIACs (as opposed to the separation between CA3 NIACs and APII NIACs). The post was published on Armed Groups and International Law as part of the…...
Identifying NIAC Series - Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification
2+ week, 5+ day ago (196+ words) Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series features alternating posts with our friends at Armed Groups and International Law. The…...
Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text
2+ week, 5+ day ago (564+ words) Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article “Target Selection by Autonomous Weapons Systems: What Does the Duty of Target Verification Require?,” published as an Exeter Centre for International Law Working Paper. The question matters beyond the definition…...
Identifying NIAC Series??? Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict
2+ week, 6+ day ago (511+ words) This introductory post serves a modest purpose: to offer insight into the historical evolution of the book, outline the core motivations driving the research along the way, and summarize its overarching objectives and structure. Several overarching motivations informed the research…...
Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons
3+ week, 2+ day ago (747+ words) Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s recent article, “Abhorrence and Autonomy: On the Place of Public Attitudes in the Debate on Militarised Artificial Intelligence” published in Volume 39 of Philosophy & Technology. Since debates around Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS)…...
Killings of Prisoners of War and Refusal of Quarter??? Present and Past
3+ week, 4+ day ago (400+ words) 1. A person who is recognized or who, in the circumstances, should be recognized to be hors de combat shall not be made the object of attack. 2. A person is hors de combat if: (a) he is in the power of an…...