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Lieber Institute West Point

The Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare at West Point seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the complex and evolving relationship between law and warfare.

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lieber.westpoint.edu > rethinking-proportionality-cloud-age-reverberating-effects-attacks-data-centers

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

2+ 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…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > compliance-design-v-loac-israeli-defense-industry

Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry

3+ 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…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > how-should-military-ai-be-evaluated-under-ihl

How Should Military AI Be Evaluated Under IHL?

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (198+ words) Viewing AI Through Precaution The Appropriate Standard of Comparison Current debates on military AI frequently assess these systems by comparing their performance with that of human decision-makers. Much of this discussion implicitly measures AI against an idealized standard of human…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > governing-responsible-military-ai-through-defense-procurement

CyCon 2026 Series??? Governing Responsible Military AI Through Defense Procurement

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (354+ words) Editors’ note: This post introduces a series derived from panels and discussions that took place in 2026 at the 18th annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) event hosted by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. This…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > concept-non-international-armed-conflict-towards-singular-definition-niacs

Identifying NIAC Series??? The Concept of Non-International Armed Conflict??? Towards a singular definition of NIACs?

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > target-selection-machines-duty-verify-gge-rolling-text

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

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lieber.westpoint.edu > using-abusing-polling-martens-clause-autonomous-weapons

Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons

3+ week, 1+ 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)…...