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09 Feb

...of a mass atrocity (of at least My Lai proportions). When one attempts to prove individual states of mind and guilt in the complexities of the modern battlefield, the same problems of proof arise. It would seem to be a similar genre of ambiguity, disorganization and decentralization from which the Somali pirates prosper. Eugene Kontorovich I'm pleased to have such readers as Mesrs. Anderson and Dehn. Mr. Dehn is right that I see the situation as analogous to terrorism in many ways. I would not go so far as to...
09.02.09 | |

05 Oct

...even those citizens who wage war against the United States or give aid and comfort to its enemies would be afforded the minimum of legal protections guaranteed in Article 3 Section 3 of the Constitution. It would be an extremely odd result if the government could ignore the Bill of rights and murder a citizen, far away from any battlefield, by simply accusing them of treason, while deliberately concealing the so-called classified sources of information that led to such a conclusion. The Court noted that any such construction would amount...
05.10.12 | |

11 Jan

...to make each of those determinations. I for one am certain that the evidence used is tainted by the massive torture process that has gone on for so many years in our name. I doubt the reliability of the secret evidence. The conditions under which many of the detainees were picked up originally - as bounties as opposed to on a battlefield - are not hidden. This reality raises another issue about why people are being held. Yemen is dangerous - and with consent of the Yemen government it appears...
11.01.13 | |

01 May

...are being fired from its territory every two minutes. Jordan Response... Well, yes, he did not restrict the right of the United States under international law to use "our inherent right of national self-defense ... outside of an active battlefield, AT LEAST WHEN the country involved consents or is unable or unwilling to take action against the threat" posed by our enemies. And, yes, international law does not require consent or that the foreign state is unwilling or unable. 39 Denver J. Int'l L. 569, 580-81 (2011). I take issue,...
01.05.12 | |

08 Feb

...don't expect our soldiers to make calls on the battlefield as to whether a defoliant is a chemical weapon, why would waterboarding and torture be any different? Kevin Heller M, Just as we use a reasonable soldier standard (adjusted for rank and experience) instead of a reasonable layperson standard in the context of the defense of superior orders, I think we would use a reasonable CIA interrogator standard instead of a reasonable layperson standard in the context of reasonable reliance on an official statement. And I think it is difficult...
08.02.08 | |

07 Dec

...rely on judgment and training. That is all we have on a messy, ambiguous battlefield of human actors. Some internalize it better than others. Some carry implicit biases that no amount of training can fully expunge. Still, as we have been discussing recently at Lawfare, humans are preferable to machines. Dave Glazier We're being a little quick to leap to conclusions about the use of lethal force against children here, aren't we? True, the article opens with discussion of a US Marine Corps strike against individuals believed to be planting...
07.12.12 | |

21 Jul

...Afghan Taliban soldiers can only be captured in Afghanistan. Of course, when enemy combatants wear uniforms and carry the required ID card, it is easy to prove they are enemy combatants. When the enemy does not follow international law, then proving they are enemy combatants becomes harder. The closer they are to a battlefield, the stronger the circumstantial evidence that they are part of the enemy armed force. Still, it is status as a soldier in the enemy army and not the location of capture that matters. If you can...
21.07.09 | |

04 May

...chilling conclusion that the whole world has become a battlefield. It implicates that AQ-operatives may be liable to similar deadly attacks wherever they are hiding (ok, this time it was Abottabad and the Pakistani government seems to turn the other cheek, but what’s next: Paris? Rome?). I prefer the following (extraterritorial law enforcement) approach: without the obtaining of Pakistani consent, the only reasonable justification the US could put forward for infringing another Sate’s sovereignty, is the right to self-defence (art 51 UN Charter). Apparently, the US had actionable intelligence that...
04.05.11 | |

26 Mar

...two armies face each other across the Panjsher valley. They had been fighting a war long before the US got there. If your legal theory doesn't make any sense when applied to the actual conditions of the conflict on the battlefield, then fix the theory. When you have something that makes sense in 2001 in Afghanistan, then you can project that theory forward to 2009 and ask if it justifies the detention of 250 captured members of the enemy army now held in Guantanamo. Charles Gittings Howard, What absolute nonsense....
26.03.09 | |

21 Jan

...not offer global observers something to consider. The President's statement that security and peace do not require perpetual war adds to a growing number of voices talking about a critical issue. It is a statement that is consistent with wind down of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it remains to be seen how this will play out vis a vis conflicts in Northern Africa, in "Arab Spring" nations, and in the use of drone and other technology that takes US soldiers off the battlefield but leaves others on it....
21.01.13 | |

06 Apr

...rights to "individual, or collective self-defense," under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter! If Hamas continues to launch its rockets from population centers, Israel must take such measures as are feasible to minimize civilian casualties, but is not otherwise required to refrain from responding to threats to its national security. The unvarnished reality is that this conflict will continue until either Israel devastates Gaza in this perpetual war, or the Hamas barbarians succeed on the battlefield, which seems even far less likely to occur! Kevin Jon Heller Mike 71, With...
06.04.11 | |

05 Jul

...certain over the months and years ahead that US Imperialist Tendencies do not come to bear, and that we Rescue, AND Restore Darfur. STAGE #2. THE MASSES OF NONVIOLENT WARRIORS BECOME ENGAGED, ORGANIZED AND DEPLOYED IN THE FIGHTING. For every one of the initial "Marines" (just one riding alone across the battlefield in "Dances with Wolves"/100's walking into swinging clubs in Gandhi's India/100's facing the fire hoses down South - APPENDIX) the numbers multiply: 1,000, 10,000, 100,000. The masses become warriors too. National organizations (Africa Action, Save Darfur Coalition, STAND,...
05.07.06 | |