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29 Nov

...AI DSS in their battlefield decision-making to defend Ukraine against Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion. Some domestically developed systems, such as Kropyva or GIS Arta, have been nicknamed ‘artillery Uber’ because they integrate data from radars, drone footage and other sources to compute and share information about Russian forces’ positions with Ukrainian artillery units in real time. Other types of AI-based decision-making software are supplied by foreign companies such as Palantir Technologies, which, according to its CEO Alex Karp, is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”. While the Israeli...
29.11.24 | |

21 May

...by Pakistan itself, not by third parties, and so far it has implicitly acquiesced. Therefore, the statement only deals with the justification for targeting Bin Laden with lethal military force in the specific location where he was found. On 9/18/01 when the AUMF was passed, the Taliban controlled 90% of the area of Afghanistan, represented the only functioning government, and had an army of 45,000 soldiers engaged in a conventional battlefield against insurgents (the Northern Alliance). One can argue that this armed conflict started as an IAC. If so, I...
21.05.11 | |

18 Nov

...distinguished just combatants from unjust combatants or else ignored the combatant/civilian distinction altogether and just focused on individual contribution to the war. Yet, (un)justness of cause is mired in uncertainty (what Dill terms “an epistemically-cloaked forced choice”) and the complexity of the battlefield makes it impossible to determine individual contribution to the war. Consequently, any attempt to design a more nuanced doctrine of targeting will end up being impossible to administer and too vague to offer real guidance for belligerents, thereby violating the rule of law – a moral principle...
18.11.13 | |

29 Aug

...rounds." diane1976 What was the legal justification for violating Pakistani sovereignty? That the battlefield included the part of their country in which his house was located? This seems to be a war with a moving battlefield that follows people around wherever they may be and whatever they may be doing. Chris Diane: I think the most rational argument for the violation of Pakistani sovereignty is that Pakistan was unwilling or unable to act against al Qaeda, which organises armed attacks against the US from within Pakistan's territory. If we accept...
29.08.12 | |

04 Apr

...time constraints, humans are more likely to defer to the judgment of machines. While a human theoretically remains in the loop, there are uncertainties regarding the extent to which humans truly maintain meaningful control or exercise judgment within these military decision-making processes.   AI-DSS’s Error Rates, Accuracy Issues and Risks In addition to speed and scale, the incremental use of AI-DSS hinges on two key assumptions: decision-advantage and accuracy. Both require closer examination. One stated goal is for AI to increase decision-making speed on the battlefield in pursuit of “decision advantage”...
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01 May

...stress) and, negligence in the battlefield itself , under stress and fire, where, the judgment of commander actions , shall and must be, much less severe, due to probable necessities and improvisations on the ground . And so , If : negligence, is revealed prior to battlefield stress, and : could be avoided by carefully or reasonably sticking to written protocols, and : huge loss could be anticipated in advance due to it , then: The prosecutor in Hague , could find great interest in it .For less than that...
01.05.16 | |

19 Mar

[Maziar Homayounnejad is currently a PhD researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. His research primarily focuses on law of armed conflict aspects of autonomous weapon systems, with a secondary focus on arms control and non-proliferation.] On January 5th of this year, a Russian air base and a nearby naval base were attacked by a swarm of 13 makeshift drones carrying explosives. This was the first known swarm attack to take place in a real battlefield and, fortunately for Russian forces, it failed: according to the...
19.03.18 | |

03 Aug

...remarks in some years about war and law were those written three years ago in this paper [TLS] by John Keegan. “The experience of land war in two world wars”, Adam Roberts observes in The Laws of War, the book Keegan is reviewing, “‘must necessarily raise a question as to whether formal legal codification is necessarily superior to notions of custom, honour, professional standards, and natural law’ in making for battlefield decencies.” Keegan answers simply, “There is no substitute for honour as a medium for enforcing decency on the battlefield,...
03.08.12 | |

08 Jan

...world.” For you law-of-armed-conflict fans, looks like Judge Bates was particularly interested in where the petitioners were initially captured; most claim they were no where near Afghanistan much less an Afghan battlefield when taken into custody. (Petitioner Redha al-Najar, for example, has witnesses who say he was in his home in Karachi, Pakistan when taken.) While the issue looks like it arose at the 3.5-hour hearing in discussions of Kennedy’s practical-obstacles test (it’s not like the military would have to pull witnesses off the battlefield to testify since these guys...
08.01.09 | |

18 May

...it should be subject to derogation during armed conflict. There is much Supreme Court precedent supporting the abridgment of private property rights during war. Milligan suggests that certain circumstances might permit abrogation of even more than property rights. Military necessity for intelligence does not stop with battlefield interrogation. Thus, I am not sure the extent to which we can draw clear lines for the temporal (to capture) or proximal (to the battlefield) applicability of the Fifth Amendment during an armed conflict, assuming it applies at all. What if a simple...
18.05.09 | |

24 Mar

...operations people on down hanging out there exposed. The drone warfare campaign embraced most thoroughly as a strategic matter – correctly, in my view – by the senior administration officials starting with the President is not the “hot battlefield” use of drones, in which they are essentially a substitute air support weapon for a manned system. It is, instead, the use of drones in a role unique to them, as a targeted killing mechanism for use in places far off of active battlefields. There are some questions raised about military...
24.03.10 | |

26 Aug

...of armed conflict to a traditional battlefield such as Afghanistan is a far cry from asserting that the US's actions away from the battlefield e.g., Yemen should also be subject to the law of armed conflict on the basis that the US government sees it all as the same global war on terror. Kevin Jon Heller Ed, Milan offered precisely the response that I would have. It's not that the US has never implied that it believes IHL applies anywhere it might use military force against Al Qaeda, but this...
26.08.10 | |