Armed Conflict

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Easing Restrictions on US Killings Outside War Zones Would be a Serious Mistake

President Donald Trump is poised to rescind some of the key rules crafted by the Obama administration that restrain the use of armed drones and other lethal operations outside…

How Obama’s Drones Rulebook Enabled Trump

In Trump’s New Drone Strike Policy: What’s Any Different? Why It Matters, Luke Hartig astutely flags some – but not all – of the key dangers in the Trump administration’s…

Six Reasons Why the US and Other States Should Support an Independent, International Inquiry on Yemen

This week, governments will vote at the United Nations on whether to create an international commission of inquiry on Yemen. In recent weeks, 67 international, regional, and Yemeni…

Three Half-Truths on U.S. Lethal Operations and Policy Constraints

Late last week, Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump might soon adopt a new policy on U.S. lethal operations outside hot warzones.…

Trump’s New Drone Strike Policy: What’s Any Different? Why It Matters

[Editor’s note: this article was originally published on September 21, 2017 at 9:50 PM] After months of continued tough talk and recent assurances that the United States…

Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Decision to Kill

The decision to kill other humans lies at the heart of concerns over Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS).  Human judgment regarding whether lives will be taken and objects destroyed…

A Careless Attack on the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria

Over on Lawfare, Lt. Col. Shane Reeves and Lt. Col. Ward Narramore have published a critique of the latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the…

Libya’s Haftar and Liability of Superiors: Ordering Offenses v. Responsibility for Omissions

Further to Just Security’s coverage on Tuesday of the potential war crimes liability of U.S citizen/Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar, this article discusses the distinction…

Smoking Gun Videos Emerge: US Citizen, Libyan Warlord Haftar Ordering War Crimes

The International Criminal Court very recently issued an arrest warrant for a militia leader in Libya which should catch the attention of U.S. policymakers, diplomats and prosecutors…

Protecting Civilians Critical to Syria Talks’ Success

“They will kill us all,” Ahmad, a Syrian aid worker, told me last month, referring to the many armed parties to the Syrian conflict. We were talking about Idlib, a province…

Global Group of Civil Society Organizations Raise Concerns about U.S.-led Drone Export Initiative

On Tuesday, 19 civil society organizations from around the world issued a joint statement with their concerns about a U.S.-led initiative that seeks to set out international standards…

After 16 Years of War, Senate Finally Debates Need for War Debate

After 15 years of no debate on the floor of the Congress since the last war authorization and 16 years of war—the longest in the nation’s history—the U.S. Senate spent 45…
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