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05 Aug Violence Against Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip as Indirect Evidence of Israel’s Genocidal Intent
...2025 the Israeli forces and authorities have killed 20,179 and injured 44,143 children, representing 30% and 26% of the total deaths and wounded. Many of them were shot while being within safe areas or following evacuation routes from active combat zones. Some kids suffered gunshot wounds to the head or abdomen and were hit by snipers or drones. Others were shot while waving white flags. Many were hit while being alone or accompanied by unarmed adults. In these circumstances, they could not have posed any threat to the Israeli security...
03 Nov Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”
...roots of this dependency lie in a powerful shared cultural vision within military institutions of how war should be fought. Since at least the Cold War, NATO-aligned allies have dreamed of perfect surveillance and instantaneous destruction derived from the ability to see everything and strike instantly. From the AirLand Battle doctrine of the 1980s to the “Revolution in Military Affairs” of the 1990s and the contemporary “Multi-Domain Operations” this fantasy has persisted in different guises. In each generation, technology is imagined as the key to omniscience and precision. Drones, satellite...
11 Feb Platforms on the Frontline: The Rise of the Platform Model in Defense Tech
...across the African continent. OpenAI has also signed a recent deal with Anduril to combine OpenAI’s models with Anduril’s hardware and software for detecting and shooting down drones. Meta, in collaboration with military startup Scale AI, is promoting its flagship large language model, Llama, as a convenient tool for military planning and decision-making. As reported by The Intercept, ‘Defense Llama’ has already raised concerns among experts about the ‘flawed,’ ‘worthless,’ and ‘irresponsible’ answers given in an online demo using the tool for airstrike planning. While we should be careful to...
18 Dec The War on Drugs is not a War (Part II): Classification Challenges
...own territory. From a factual standpoint, both the organization and intensity criteria have periodically approached the IHL threshold. Major cartels—such as the Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and Los Zetas—possess clear command hierarchies, internal discipline, and the logistical capacity to conduct sustained military-style operations. Their arsenals include assault rifles, explosives, armored vehicles, and weaponized drones, while their recruitment structures, financing channels, and territorial control exhibit a degree of institutionalization that far exceeds ordinary criminality. Episodes such as the prolonged Ciudad Mier clashes in Tamaulipas (2010–2012), the Tanhuato...
06 May Deep Sensing, the New Military AI? Why Deep Sensing Should be on the Radar
...years, military intelligence has relied on these tools – such as satellites and drones – to enhance situational awareness. However, sensing technologies are increasingly intertwined with AI-enabled data processing and analysis systems. As the military gathers more data, it becomes ever more dependent on AI to process and filter “actionable” information. Vice-versa, the greater the integration of AI into military operations, the stronger the need for high-quality, up-to-date data. While this dynamic is well-understood, what is important is the framing of new platforms and systems as purely “sensing” platforms. This...
20 Apr Artificial Intelligence in the Battlefield: A Perspective from Israel
...Furthermore, the Iron Dome is an Israeli missile defense system known for its life-saving capabilities in safeguarding critical infrastructure against the threat of rockets launched into the territory of Israel. In the 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas war, this system allowed the low number of casualties notwithstanding rocket launches from Gaza, Lebanon and other areas (like Syria and even Yemen), in the face of a wide range of threats, like drones and other small, low-flying objects. Another defense system known as “Edge 360” has been developed by Axon Vision. This AI-based system, installed...
27 Nov Symposium on Open Source Investigation Labs: AI for Open Source Investigation
...interest is well-defined. An example would be identifying a cat in an image. Since we can provide a large training data set of images, which contain images with cats, without cats, with cats of different sizes or types, the ML algorithm can derive a pattern accurately. Contrast this with identifying a novel weapon, where the training data would be extremely small and the new drone might have features that vary from existing drones. In such cases, ML algorithms are shown not to perform well and thus require extensive human oversight...19 Oct Events and Announcements: 19 October 2025
...acts, are: discipline and borders, (re)imagination and continuity, violence and reckoning, acoustics and storytelling, and friendship and kindness. A wide gamut of touchpoints dovetails into a beautifully eclectic medley. These include criminal law, the law of war, music and harm, gender-based violence, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence, law after war, the crime of aggression, drones and targets, the domestication of international law, and the role of law in inter-state relations. The book journeys to many places, including Japan, Bosnia and Ukraine, while reflecting on the role of teaching and mentorship...
05 Sep Iran’s Threat of Retaliation
...time” in the “appropriate” manner, reduce the likelihood of immediate retaliation. Furthermore, the US response, involving the deployment of additional fighter squadrons and more warships to the Middle East to help defend Israel, may diminish the chances of Iranian reprisals. On the other hand, Iran certainly has the capacity to retaliate militarily, as evidenced in April when it launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israel. The decision of certain airlines to halt operations to the Middle East and the calls by states for their citizens to evacuate from...
16 Jul Symposium on PMSCs: AI Broke the Code – The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers and Emerging Technologies
...ecosystems—integrating AI-powered surveillance, facial recognition, behavioral analytics, predictive policing algorithms, and biometric identification tools into their service portfolios. One need only look to Anduril Industries, a U.S.-based defense technology firm founded by Silicon Valley engineers and former military operatives, to grasp the scale of this shift. The company develops autonomous surveillance towers, sensor-laden autonomous drones and underwater systems, and is now even helping integrate augmented-reality headsets for frontline troops. At the heart of its operations lies the Lattice platform—a powerful dual-use AI-enabled operating system that fuses sensor inputs across domains,...