[PDF] Top 20 The Law of Armed Conflict and Detention Operations in Afghanistan

... 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

... The phrase "stability operations" may represent, to some extent, new terminology; but it does emphatically not refer to a new phenomenon in the continuum of mili- tary[r] ... See full document

... military operations? In the case of Operation Cast Lead, the conflict was unique in ...3 conflict; that is, it was neither international nor internal in ...of conflict in which op- erations ... See full document

... 46. As Schmitt notes, human targeting officers in U.S. forces sometimes employ so- phisticated software programming to estimate likely collateral damage from the employ- ment of a particular munition in particular ... See full document

... 110. A relevant example is the case in which a German officer ordered an airstrike against two fuel trucks which were stuck on a sandbank near the German camp in Kunduz, Afghanistan on September 4, 2009 during ... See full document

... government armed forces, P: paramilitaries, O: armed opposition groups) Colombia (P,O); Mexico (P,O); Peru (O); Russian Federation (O); Turkey (O); Yugoslavia (former ...(O); Afghanistan (all ... See full document

... 52 However, given the Aus tralian characterization of the context as less-than-N IAC law e nforc e m ent, any mission accomplishmen t ROE that allowed use oflethal force o[r] ... See full document

... the law of armed ...the law should be applied in COIN/stability operations in or- der to achieve definitive military ...international law and which offers a unique opportunity for a ... See full document

... rights law and an imperative to harmo- nize legal obligations when there is no direct contradiction between ...rights law, even during situations of armed conflicts—all of which are taking place ... See full document

... relief operations, where the preliminary conditions for such operations to be undertaken are met, derives from the interpretation of the relevant treaty texts which best accords with the relevant provisions ... See full document

... targeting armed groups in which “the States concerned [n]either verbally [n]or factually conduct themselves as if they were involved in an armed conflict, even though they may not have consented to ... See full document

... Precision lies at the heart of both contemporary air warfare and the law of armed conflict rules that govern it. Precision capabilities increase an attack- er’s ability to distinguish between ... See full document

... Advocates for the employment of automated or even autonomous systems ar- gue that the phenomenon of information overload, which is prevalent on the mod- ern battlefield, underscores the requirement for systems that can ... See full document

... occupation law, including the study of materials from the US Army War College and the Center for Military History on US experiences after World War ...offensive operations as coalition forces moved through ... See full document

... in armed conflict is not one of ...rights law, but as previously noted, neither Common Article 3 nor Additional Proto- col II contain any—let alone explicit—reference to detention authority or ... See full document

... Texas Law Review, 95 T EXAS L AW R EVIEW (forthcoming 2017); J AMES C RAWFORD , S TATE R ESPONSIBILITY : T HE G ENERAL P ART 405 (2014); Rob- in Geiß, The Obligation to Respect and to Ensure Respect for the ... See full document

... in conflict- affected poor countries are out of school,” Bensouda asserted that such “children need to be included in the education system as education is the most effective way of reintegrating them back into ... See full document

... If the conflict is a non-international armed conflict, the rules of international humanitarian law con- tained in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and in P[r] ... See full document

... The Air Force is proactive in environmental clean up ... Our goal is simple: no violation offederal standards. To do this, we have made environmental compliance a mind set for our dai[r] ... 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