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Guest Post: Is There an International Duty to Use More Accurate Weapons?

In the heated debate about drones, relatively little attention has been given to their use by the US military to carry out attacks in battlefield zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq,…
Jun. 2, 2015
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al Warafi’s active hostilities

As Marty Lederman’s earlier post explains, a D.C. district court is now considering the habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi, found in an earlier…
May 28, 2015
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A Veteran’s Perspective on “Killer Robots”

Technological advances in robotics and other fields are already assisting soldiers with dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs on the battlefield. Within the military such advances should…
May 28, 2015
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Public Opinion, International Law, and Drone Strikes: Some Reflections

We commend Professor Charles Dunlap for his excellent recent post on international law and public support for drone strikes. As he notes, there are many points of agreement between…
May 27, 2015 and
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Understanding the “end of war” dispute in the al Warafi habeas case

Attorneys for Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi have filed their reply brief in the habeas action challenging al Warafi’s continued military detention at Guantánamo.  As I have previously explained,…
May 27, 2015
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Casualties and Polls: Some Observations

In a recent post provocatively entitled “New Poll: American Support for Drone Strikes Plummets When Innocent US Civilians Killed,” Just Security’s editor Ryan Goodman energetically…
May 26, 2015
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What Civilians Themselves Say about Targeting and their Participation in Conflict

“What I think is that there is no line at all … Civilians can turn into fighters at any time. Anybody can change from a fighter to a civilian, all in one day, all in one moment.”…
May 21, 2015
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Polish Outrage to Paying Victims of CIA Black Sites—and What the Eur Court Said

Poland will be paying a quarter of a million dollars to two Guantánamo detainees, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The payment arises in the context of the torture of…
May 20, 2015
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Lessons From the North: Omar Khadr’s Release on Bail in Canada

UPDATE: The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled on May 14 that the U.S. military commission that convicted Omar Khadr sentenced him as a juvenile and not, as the Canadian…
May 14, 2015
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The Relationship Between Context and Proportionality: A Reply to Cohen and Shany

I am honored that Deans Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany, both superb scholars that I hold in the highest regard, have responded to the Just Security post I wrote with my colleague…
May 11, 2015
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Why not, Secretary Carter?

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has announced that a U.S. drone strike recently killed one of AQAP’s senior commanders, Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi.  This would, of course,…
May 8, 2015
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The Unfolding Crisis of Presidential Succession in Central Africa

A growing crisis of governance and succession threatens peace and security in the countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa, where an outbreak of “god syndrome” among long-serving…
May 8, 2015
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