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13 Apr Beyond Anthropic’s Red Line: Human-in-the-Loop and the Illusion of Legitimacy in AI Decision-Support Systems
...(pre-establishment of lawful targets). However, this generalized decision-making operating in the battlefield’s inherent uncertainty may undermine the case-by-case judgment required by IHL. Alternatively, AI-DSS are computerized tools designed to aid humans in complex decision-making. These tools bring together data (e.g. satellite imagery, sensor data, or phone signals) to detect familiar patterns and present analysis and recommendations to decision makers. They use data driven AI-technologies such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which build an AI system by letting it “learn” through training data gathered from experience. Thus, contrary to earlier...
27 Oct A Step Forward into Terror: What Neon Genesis Evangelion Tells us About the Future of Warfare
...injuries suffered by a civilian during battle, I will explore the inadequacy of dispute settlement regimes that shield the UN from redressing the harms caused by its peace enforcement operations. I will conclude, as the anime does, calling upon humanity to stop mindlessly marching towards terror. Of Angels and Robots One crisp morning in 2015, the quiet waters east of Tokyo-3 are suddenly disrupted by a massive shockwave. A monstrous creature emerges from the deep realising everyone’s worst fears. It’s been 15 years since contact with Adam brought about the “Second Impact,” a...06 Apr Events and announcements: April 6, 2014
...October 2014. Proposals for papers should be submitted to the editors by July 31, 2014. Contact details are available on the TDM website. Announcements The ICRC has launched its first Research & Debate Cycle on New Technologies and the Modern Battlespace. In recent years, a wide array of new technologies has entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new methods and means of warfare, such as cyber attacks, armed drones and robots. While there can be no doubt that IHL applies to them, applying pre-existing legal rules to new technologies...
12 Mar AWS in the Cross-Hairs: Data Centres as Targets
...that international companies are complicit in an ‘economy of genocide’, including the provision of cloud services to the IDF for use in Gaza by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google, as well as Palantir, which is involved in providing Artificial Intelligence Platform for real-time battlefield data integration in predictive identification of Palestinians to be detained. Lawfulness of Targeting Data Centres Concern over digital spaces in IHL have traditionally been explored in relation to cyberwarfare and hacking. Indeed the Tallinn manuals have made great strides to consider the application of IHL...07 Mar Thoughts on Rumsfeld v. FAIR
...the legal basis for the use of force, rules of engagement, capitulation, parole and local cease fire agreements, civilians on the battlefield, war crimes investigation, negotiations with armed groups, the wearing of non-standard uniforms, and child soldiers on the battlefield. Judge advocates are critical and much relied upon members of the military commander’s staff, and move when and where their units move…. The enforcement of the Solomon Amendment is essential to supporting and maintaining the military, especially considering the “increasingly challenging recruiting environment” brought about by the Global War on...14 May ANZAC Day and Post Conflict Reconciliation
...coalition has participated. While by no means diminishing what ANZAC day means to Australia and New Zealand, all countries have their holidays commemorating wartime service and sacrifice. But what makes ANZAC day so compelling to me is how the relationship between former battlefield enemies has evolved. Flash forward from the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign to 1934. Attaturk, President of Turkey, purportedly authored a tribute to the ANZACS who fought, and died, in Turkey: Those heroes that shed blood and lost their lives…. you are now lying in the soil of a...05 Apr Drone Warfare and the Koh Speech – A Roundup of Links
...objection that drone strikes away from a battlefield constitute unlawful extrajudicial killing. Not so, Koh replies—a state “that is engaged in an armed conflict or in legitimate self-defence is not required to provide targets with legal process before the state may use lethal force.” The suggestion here is that a state that is the subject of sustained threat from an armed group may use lethal force when necessary to defend the lives of its citizens, even outside the context of a recognisable armed conflict. And furthermore that this right of...17 Jul The Supposed “Errors” in the NYT Warsame Editorial
...war. But Mr. Warsame was not picked up on any recognized battlefield. The administration claims continuing authority for military detention, interrogation and trial. This applies not just to battlefield detentions, where it is often appropriate, but to detentions anywhere, and not just to personal involvement in violent attacks, but to a broad range of offenses directly or indirectly related to terrorism. That is far too broad a claim. This paragraph is absolutely correct. The US and al-Qaeda are not engaged in a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) in Somalia, nor is...30 Jan ICTY upholds Genocide Convictions in Srebrenica Case
...that: (1) the Scorpions Unit was deployed in Trnovo from late June through at least the end of July 1995; (2) on 1 July 1995, Borovcanin reported on activities on the Trnovo battlefield, including on an attack involving the Scorpions Unit; (3) Borovcanin was in Trnovo on the Sarajevo front until he was resubordinated on 10 July 1995; (4) a mixed company of joint Republic of Serbian Krajina (“RSK”), Serbian and RS MUP forces was among the units under Borovcanin’s command when he was resubordinated and that during the night...
19 Sep When the World Looks Away: How the Iran–Israel Conflict Diverted Focus from Ukraine
...Europe’s strategic attention in recent history, the war in Ukraine is in danger of becoming a secondary concern. In this hour of volatility, it is essential that Western resolve does not waiver. Russia’s Renewed Assault on Ukraine On June 23rd, Russian forces launched drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, claiming at least ten lives and revealing plots to assassinate Zelensky. These developments underscore the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign of destabilization targeting Ukraine’s government and infrastructure. These attacks are not just battlefield maneuvers by Russia, they are strategic escalations designed to erode...