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02 May The Real War on Terrorism
...detention of combatants seized on the battlefield, she warned that "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 understanding may unravel." The threat posed to states by international terrorism is of a nature entirely unlike the traditional state-on-state war (or even intra-state wars like civil wars and rebellions) that the laws of war developed to regulate, and thus the laws of war need to adapt to adequately account for the new type of...09 May Guantanamo’s Collateral Damage
Michael Another pragmatic reason for rejecting our current standards of prisoner/detainee treatment is the negative impact it has on surrender rates in battlefield encounters. Anecdotal evidence both from WWII and the Gulf Wars indicates enemy combatants surrendered to our forces at higher rates because of our known moderation in prisoner treatment. I fear we have now lost that reputation and the next war we fight may be bloodier as a consequence. Michael Another pragmatic reason for rejecting our current standards of prisoner/detainee treatment is the negative impact it has on...03 Jul The Gaza Report’s Treatment of Warnings: A Response to Blank
...circumstances; Israeli intelligence is good, but, for instance, it is unlikely to have access to contact information for someone in every home in Gaza in order to make a warning phone call that provides specific directions. More, the nature of the battle and battlefield in Gaza makes providing a clear "escape corridor" difficult; unlike a war between militaries, in which civilian areas are mostly free of targets and combatants (rendering relatively easy the identification of areas that will be free of combat), the battlefield in Gaza is mutable and determined...31 Jul Prevention
Howard Gilbert POWs are not limited to battlefield capture, and need not be people who have engaged in combat. With a conventional enemy army, anyone in uniform may be captured, including the cook who spent the war peeling potatoes or the file clerk who shuffles paper. Any member of the enemy armed services contributes to the war effort, and the purpose of detention in international law is to deny the enemy army their services for the duration of the hostilities. In the current conflict the enemy does not wear a...21 Jul Does the US Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? (Answer: No.)
...embassies, the Cole etc. are such overwhelming crimes that I think they negate the possibility of a truth and reconciliation type process. Feel free to make any normative argument you want, but I think my empirical point is accurate. Truch commissions investigate bad acts committed against good people, looking at bad acts againt bad people would be unprecedented. Kevin Jon Heller So all the detainees at Guantanamo who were picked up away from the battlefield by warlords looking for bounties, against whom the US government has no evidence of any...28 Feb Predators over Pakistan …
...human rights and the law of war mutually exclusive. Considering the world as a comprehensive battlefield in which democracies are combating the war on terror is contrary to the rules of war. As in other different sectors of international law, the scope of a regulation is primarily territorial. Since we cannot consider the entire world as a battlefield, outside the zone of operations, there are no combatants, and thus no targets a priori. The reasoning of those who think that the term “war” to refer to international struggle against terrorism...
23 Jan Legal Consequences of Peremptory Norms: A Missing Part in the South Africa v. Israel Case and an Opportunity to Reinforce Jus Cogens
...have had no analysis of IDF proceedures, or any analysis of the battlefield reality faced by the IDF, or any attempts to determine whether any specific actions on the battlefield can be explained without criminal intent. And no evidence of any intent whatsoever, beyond statements by random politicians with no power to influence anything and no evidence that any soldier is influenced by such statement.s Not even a single incident has been analysed in any depth to establish any plausible criminal wrongdoing. In particular, the problem with South Africa's genocide...23 Apr Students, Junior Faculty, and Human Rights Scholars are Delicate Flowers
...his book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. He reports that as legal adviser, “Harold Koh, wanted to lay out the case publicly before Aulaqi was killed,” in an effort to preempt critiques of the administration’s decision to target and kill a U.S. citizen in secret and without a trial.[15] According to Mr. Scahill: “In advance of his public speech, the CIA and military gave Koh access to their intel on Aulaqi. Koh settled in for a long day of reading in the Secured Classified Intelligence Facility. According to...
29 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: The Sokovia Accords and Popular Culture’s Effect on Perceptions of International Law
...So, when the behemoth Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) chose to tackle this theme in its blockbuster movie Captain America: Civil War (Civil War) in the form of a treaty, I was intrigued, apprehensive, and cautiously excited. The Movie and the Marvel Cinematic Universe For readers not familiar with the MCU, it is a mammoth media franchise covering a shared fictional universe. Derived from hundreds of Marvel comic books, it centers on a cast of superheroes, gods, sentient artificial intelligence powered robots, powerful fighters, and devoted but talented sidekicks (for the...