PSYOPS inviting enemy personnel to defect / surrender can save lives on both sides of a conflict and weaken an armed group ...

Nuclear powered microreactors may serve operational interests. However, their military usefulness does not eliminate their legal sensitivity.

This post explores the meaning of forcible displacement and the temporal applicability of Article 49 of GC IV.

In November 2001, the United States conducted what is considered to be the first ever armed drone attack in Afghanistan. Over the next twenty years, the United States dominated the production of large ...

Since Russia commenced its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Wagner Group has come out of the shadows. Used by the Kremlin as an alternative fighting force since 2014, the private ...

The Stockton Center for International Law (SCIL), U.S. Naval War College (NWC), recently completed a 2-year effort, in coordination with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard, to ...

The app’s intended use raises challenging questions regarding participation in the conflict by Ukrainian civilians. According to the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, to which ...

This post is based on the author’s article in the Stanford Journal of International Law and is posted here with the permission of SJIL. It is generally accepted in moral philosophy that it is ...

Few lawyers better appreciated the importance of terminological precision than my late friend and law of war colleague, Hays Parks. Over three decades ago, he turned his attention to assassination.

The support neutral States are providing Russia and Ukraine has ignited a debate over neutrality. It is one of existential magnitude for Ukraine. Indeed, the survival of Kyiv in early 2022 can be ...

As Russian troops pull back from the Kyiv area, they are leaving behind horrific evidence of international humanitarian law (IHL) violations and war crimes. Images from the suburb of Bucha, including ...