[PDF] Top 20 The Law of Armed Conflict in Asymmetric Urban Armed Conflict

... Hamas armed groups and accordingly po- tential combatants, when attacked these police personnel were not taking a “direct part in hostilities” and thus had not lost their civilian immunity from direct ... See full document

... the law of armed conflict are not necessarily a zero-sum game and warnings, as well as other precautionary measures, can be beneficial for all sides ... See full document

... soft law are the appropriate methods of assistance to help children in these unique and precarious situations (although, perhaps not in that specific order) short of direct humanitarian ... See full document

... The current bifurcated conflict classification paradigm for applying the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) has lost its usefulness. Regulation of state militaries was originally based on t[r] ... See full document

... The faithful construction of mediating doctrines requires great care and invites close scrutiny, but there is no alternative. Borderline cases are not simply a theoretical problem. Borderline cases are a practical ... See full document

... every conflict, may be because no conflict these days are in ...a conflict, International organizations have developed certain laws which guarantee human safety to a large ...such law is ... See full document

... rights law and the law of NIAC do not conflict with each ...rights law “offers a basic protection to the human person,” while the law of NIAC aims “to ensure a better protection for the ... See full document

... the law of armed conflict: necessity, distinction, proportionality and ...the law of armed ...of armed conflict within the law by the means that are the most ... See full document

... such a standard would ignore the realities of combat, in which attackers operate in the fog of war. A more manageable standard that comports with the notion of feasibility asks whether a reasonable warfighter, having ex- ... See full document

... A s we have seen, the principle of the military objective, though slow in coming to recognition as articulated in Additional Protocol I and current military manuals, has been [r] ... See full document

... OEF detention operations in Afghanistan, but the sparse tenns of Com mon Article 3 do littl e to clarify the separa t e issue of what minimum procedural requirements gove[r] ... See full document

... "Directed energy" is a generic term embracing three technologies: lasers, high-powered microwave devices, and particle beams. All have in common the production and emission[r] ... See full document

... The principle, as such, is declared to restrain all armed forces in the event of armed conflict, without regard to the necessity or proportionality principles, while Article[r] ... See full document

... there should have been more interagency involvement in Iraq in the first year. This is wrong; in fact, there should have been less non-military presence in Iraq in the first year. There should have been more interagency ... See full document

... appropriate. Armed conflict continues to be an unpredictable, often base affair, where significant ambiguity prevails, notwithstanding the employment of considerable technological capabil- ...by ... See full document

... Whereas the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols Additional thereto address, for the most part, the protection of victims of war, the Hague Regulations, the Genev[r] ... See full document

... The same is true for the law of self-defense if, e.g., a warship of a belligerent or neutral country exercises its analogous law of the sea right of approach and visit of a merchant [r] ... See full document

... of armed conflicts has given rise to debates on the concept and types of armed conflicts, including whether the classification of armed conflict under IHL is sufficient to cater all the types ... See full document

... Was it an international armed conflict thereby requiring compliance by all Parties to the Convention, or was it a non-international armed conflict, in which case only the minimal protect[r] ... See full document

... from armed conflict, the post-conflict society may not be free from violence (criminal violence for example) or autocracy, both of which may impact negatively upon ...of armed conflict ... See full document