updated Thu. April 11, 2024
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Yeni Şafak English
April 12, 2018
In the crises taking place today, there is no law of war, no ethic and not even any kind of a term that fits into morality. The strategies of the ones backed by the so-called civilized countries that are to sweep away opponents in an aimless way have been resulting in the disasters of today. The U.S., which hadÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 11, 2018
But when it comes to adjudicating behavior on the battlefield, for some the issue remains straightforward. “The law of war is well-established and whatever system we have, whether it is autonomous or human directed, it is going to have to comply with the fundamentals of the law of armed conflict, period.
GameSpace.com
April 4, 2018
The success of the Arma 3 Laws of War DLC has shown us that video games are one of the many ways to reach new audiences and call attention to the fact that wars do have limits and rules. ... The Law of War DLC also implemented a free Showcase scenario on the International Humanitarian Law (IHL).
Just Security
April 4, 2018
The laws of war permit attacks only against military objectives, which includes enemy fighters and commanders. Civilians are immune from attack, except those directly participating in hostilities. For a specific attack on a military objective to be lawful, it must discriminate between combatants and civilians,Ãâà...
Middle East Eye
April 2, 2018
Houthi forces in Yemen violated the laws of war by launching ballistic missiles at populated areas in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Last month, Houthi rebels fired several ballistic missiles into populated areas inside Riyadh which Saudi air defences "intercepted". The attacks killed anÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
March 24, 2018
Flouting the law of war not only turned norms into hollow phrases, but also eroded the rules-based international order, Kaag argued. Outlining a framework for action, she called for guarantees for humanitarian access and action against violators of international law before stressing the importance ofÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
March 24, 2018
“I would say the main failure is this: The human rights organizations typically describe the situation in Gaza when hostilities break out ... as wars, and I don't think a war or the term 'war' or the application of the laws of war really accurately describe what's happening,” he said in an interview. “These are notÃâà...
Independent Online
March 23, 2018
Turkey has violated those laws of war in its military onslaught on the northern Syrian town of Afrin, sending its population of 350000 residents fleeing for their lives. The residents of Afrin are not only Kurds, but also Yezidis, Christians, Alevis and Sunni Muslims, many of whom fled to Afrin to find sanctuaryÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 23, 2018
“Attacks on children and civilian infrastructure are a violation of basic laws of war. “The protection of children under all circumstances is non-negotiable. The war on children, the war on humanity, cannot become a new norm. “Children today or in the future will hold us all accountable if we don't stop the warÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
March 23, 2018
British officials have also been present in Saudi Arabia throughout, advising their Saudi counterparts - according to the British Ministry of Defence - on how to conduct their military operations in a way that is consistent with the laws of war. At the same time, Britain's Department for International DevelopmentÃâà...
GameIndustry.com
March 23, 2018
As pledged last August, independent games developer Bohemia Interactive has donated half of its 2017 net revenue from direct sales of the Arma 3 Laws of War DLC to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The total amount raised is USD 176,667 (one-hundred and seventy-six thousand,Ãâà...
PC Gamer
March 23, 2018
The Arma 3: Laws of War DLC that debuted last year promised "a different perspective on the battlefield," by kitting out players not as soldiers but as members of the International Development and Aid Projection. Instead of shooting guys, the job is deactivating mines left behind by the war, and uncoveringÃâà...
Gamasutra
March 21, 2018
Arma III developer Bohemia Interactive has donated $176,667 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The studio gave the humanitarian organization half of the revenue from its Arma III Laws of War add-on, which explores a different side of war by focusing on non-combat scenarios andÃâà...
Polygon
March 21, 2018
The developer, whose legacy game engines are also used to train active-duty troops around the world, shared the proceeds from its latest piece of downloadable content, called The Laws of War. The narrative module was a special project that hoped to instill an understanding of international humanitarianÃâà...
Just Security
March 16, 2018
If the practical circumstances of a given conflict are entirely unlike those of the conflicts that informed the development of the law of war, that ... that conflict, the laws of war do not apply and the government can no longer rely on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force as justification for his detention.
The Commercial Appeal
March 9, 2018
In 1966, President Johnson, not seeing Westmoreland's promised progress in the war, issued National Security Memorandum 192, appointing Robert Komer as his man to be in charge of the "other war," the so-called "pacification" effort in Vietnam led by America's "shadow warriors" to whom the laws of warÃâà...
NET Website
March 9, 2018
“This one involved issues of the law of war because we had a cyberattack and the question is that cyberattack an issue of law of war or not. That is a very, very current issue.” While the scenario is fiction, there is no fabricated case law used by the students advocating on behalf of their clients. Much of theÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
March 8, 2018
This principle also exists explicitly in the US Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2015) and the UK Law of Armed Conflict Manual (2013). This principle, encoded in these war law manuals, makes it clear that commanders have a responsibility to avoid the reckless deployment of their warfighters. The United StatesÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 22, 2018
Parties to the conflict are required under the laws of war to allow unimpeded, impartial humanitarian aid to civilians in need. Turkish media have also carried reports of potentially indiscriminate attacks by the People's Protection Units (YPG) – the Democratic Union Party's armed force – in Turkey, includingÃâà...
NPR
November 29, 2017
Two Air Force generals — one the current U.S. Strategic Forces commander, the other his predecessor — declared publicly this month that they would defy a presidential nuclear launch order if they found it violated the Law of War. So what are the Law of War's constraints are on a nuclear strike and could itÃâà...
RollingStone.com
November 16, 2017
Laws of War places players in the role of Nathan MacDade, an explosives specialist working for a fictional nonprofit called the International Development & Aid Project (IDAP). As MacDade clears unexploded ordinance in a war-torn town called Oreokastro, he reminisces with a reporter over Skype.
Lawfare (blog)
November 14, 2017
First, it sets out the most radical claims Rabkin and Yoo make regarding the contemporary international law of war as it comes to grip with emerging weapon .... which will lead to more peaceful resolution of crises,” which in turn promotes the “central goal of the laws of war—protecting innocent civilian life.".
Lawfare (blog)
October 25, 2017
Did outlawing war in the mid-20th Century change international politics? Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro have reignited this debate with their book “The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World.” They suggest that it did and point to the dramatic decline of wars of conquestÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 18, 2017
In particular, there is a great deal of Western writing concerning the extent to which the use of AI-enabled weapons will conform to international humanitarian law, i.e. jus in bello, or the laws of war. A typical issue centers on how these weapons will be able to make distinctions between civilian and militaryÃâà...
