1+ day, 37+ min ago  (14+ words) Nuclear Weapons Part II " Can an Arms Race Be Stopped? Lieber Institute West Point...

2+ day, 12+ min ago  (561+ words) Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again." " Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (1897) That framework exists; it simply requires an appropriate looking glass....

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (557+ words) Military Necessity and AI Integration Legal Constraints on Counterfire 1. Combatants may make military objectives the object of attack, but may not direct attacks against civilians, civilian objects, or other protected persons and objects; 2. Combatants must refrain from attacks in which…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (507+ words) However, Ukraine's suspension is problematic from the standpoint of the law of treaties. The Oslo-Ottawa Convention is indeed aligned, for issues of withdrawal, with other IHL treaties. When a State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, Article 20(3) of the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (374+ words) By 2025, scholars identified an entire movement of "LSCO lawyering" that seeks "to reframe existing, well-established rules, not by changing them outright but by stripping them to their most minimal defensible core." This movement was said to have reacted to "a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (134+ words) The Importance of the GGE China's Rhetoric of Meaningful Human Control Cumulative Criteria and IHL Accountability Gaps Dr Gerald Mako is a Research Affiliate at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum at Cambridge University. Articles of War'is a forum for professionals…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (321+ words) Second, Canada has developed a distinctive approach to IHL. This approach is anchored in the country's evolution as a middle power, and contemporary foreign and defence policy that emphasizes international institutions, alliances, multilateralism, and coalition operations. In many respects, Canada's…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (609+ words) Defining Military Law in an International Context The concept of "military law" in the context of our volume, refers to the body of international law regulating the use of armed force and related coercive measures by States and other actors…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (416+ words) Article 36 of AP I, to which Armenia has been a party since 2007, provides: In the study, development, acquisition or adoption of a new weapon, means or method of warfare, a High Contracting Party is under an obligation to determine whether…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (514+ words) This post briefly outlines the policy and legal arguments in favour of recognising non-resident citizens as legitimate participants in lev'es en masse, drawing on my previously published full-length article. A Primer on Lev'es en Masse The lev'e is unusual because…...