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20 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
An Israeli soldier has caused outrage because of a photo posted to Instagram showing what appears to be a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of his rifle. Chinese government officials considered using a drone to target a suspected drug lord hiding in Myanmar. In other drone news, the United Arab Emirates has signed a contract with the US to purchase approximately $200 million worth of American-made drones. Reuters provides coverage of the pre-trial hearing of Laurent Gbagbo at the ICC, a proceeding which began yesterday. 20 rebels are dead and...01 Jun President Obama: The (Unilateral) Cyber Warrior
...meetings on Olympic Games, was acutely aware that with every attack he was pushing the United States into new territory, much as his predecessors had with the first use of atomic weapons in the 1940s, of intercontinental missiles in the 1950s and of drones in the past decade. He repeatedly expressed concerns that any American acknowledgment that it was using cyberweapons — even under the most careful and limited circumstances — could enable other countries, terrorists or hackers to justify their own attacks. One interesting sidenote not discussed in the...29 Sep A Quick Thought on the “Surrender” Option
...say, “I hear you guys are looking for me.” No special forces guys, Predator drones, or air strikes are going to take him out if he does this. In other words, this situation is, in conceptual terms, a fairly close analogue to the one in which cops surround a building and say, “Come out with your hands up or we’ll shoot.” Ben and I disagreed about the “surrender” option at the time, and I continue to find it unconvincing even with regard to al-Aulaqi. But a post by Glenn Greenwald...12 Feb The Shift from Proportionality to Necessity and an Indirect Comment on Gaby Blum’s Article
...name of “necessity” in treating non-state actors, but the reciprocal obligations elaborated for soldiers turn out to mean nothing, as usual. In any case, it does not seem to me to travel outside this special circumstance. In the case of targeted killing using drones or special forces, in counterterrorism rather than part of a conventional overt conflict, or outside the overt parts of it, however, I think it is a useful and important discussion. Necessity and distinction take center stage, because the status is not self-defining through uniforms or such....
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction
...to Iran. Examples include AI-enabled drones, autonomous and semi-autonomous defense systems, machine-learning tools used in targeting, AI-supported cyber operations, generative AI in information operations and cognitive warfare, and many others. All of these developments raise an urgent question: how does international law, and especially international humanitarian law (IHL), regulate these technologies, and what limits does it impose on their development and use? This symposium brings together four perspectives on distinct aspects of that question. It also offers an early glimpse of the forthcoming Oxford University Press volume International Law and...