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| Aug 26, 2026 | UN and ICRC Issue Final Warning: Autonomous Weapons Window Closes in Five Days | By Scott McCain
Published: Aug 26 2026, 9:57 AM EDT
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| Aug 11, 2026 | Houthi Double-Tap Kills Crew and Rescuers; Red Sea Safe Passage Collapses | By Collin Mercer
Published: Aug 11 2026, 4:31 PM EDT
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| Jul 13, 2026 | Helsing Closes $1.8B Round, Reaching $18B as Europe’s Defense AI Giant Scales | By Mireya Ramsey
Published: Jul 13 2026, 5:03 PM EDT
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| Jun 15, 2026 | Helsing Nears $1.2B Close With Autonomous AI That Has Yet to Work in Combat | By Jerry Owens
Published: Jun 15 2026, 14:10 PM EDT
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| Mar 11, 2026 | The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J. Bryant had por... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Djibouti dodges scrutiny despite China, Iran, Houthi ties and links to illicit activities | The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea through the Gulf of Aden, is a crucial chokepoint for global maritime commerce. It handles as much as 20% of international trade, 12% of seaborne oil trade, and 8% of... |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Securing The Final Frontier: Why Cybersecurity In Space Matters Now | Duncan Greatwood is the Executive Chair of Xage Security. |
| Jun 9, 2023 | What International Humanitarian Law Says About the Nova Kakhovka Dam | On June 6, a Ukrainian dam in Russian-occupied Kherson suffered a massive breach, draining the enormous Kakhovka reservoir into the surrounding region at a rapid rate and reportedly “fully destroy[ing]” the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plan... |
| Apr 21, 2023 | The Black Sea Grain Deal: Fragile Cooperation Between Ukraine and Russia | On March 18, after tedious negotiations accompanied by threats from Russia to abandon the deal, the Black Sea Grain Initiative between Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey—otherwise known as the Grain Deal—was extended for the second time. When the ... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Why Divergent Civil Society and Military Approaches Matter for CHMR-AP Implementation | In a previous Lawfare article, I explained that a balanced approach is vitally important as the Department of Defense moves forward with implementing the recently published Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP). The sc... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Civilianization of Digital Operations: A Risky Trend | For more than two decades, states have used cyber capabilities for military purposes. There are two main types of cyber operations: those aimed at obtaining confidential information for strategic advantage (presence based) and those that se... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | The Benefits and Risks of Extending Weapons Deliveries to the Cyber Domain | In September, NATO members met to coordinate weapons supplies being sent to Ukraine, identify gaps in weapons stockpiles, and coordinate manufacturing. But all of the talk about delivering HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems), ja... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Commitment to Balance Is Vitally Important for Successful Implementation of CHMR-AP | Publication of the Department of Defense Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response-Action Plan (CHMR-AP) at the end of August has prompted an appreciable degree of debate regarding how the plan will be implemented in practice and how best to op... |
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| Sep 30, 2022 | The Lawfare Podcast: Shane Reeves and Rob Lawless on Data-Rich Battlefields and the Future LOAC | In modern-day warfare, data is considered a weapons system, and the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict gives us some perspective into what warfare looks like in a data-rich, hyperconnected world. To talk about the pervasiveness of data in contem... |
| Sep 18, 2022 | The Importance of Terrorist Founders and the Role of Safe Havens | Editor’s Note: Many terrorist groups are small, and their initial leaders exert outsized influence on their future direction. Drawing on their recent book, Tricia Bacon of American University and Elizabeth Grimm of Georgetown University exa... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | The New Defense Department Plan to Curb Civilian Harm: A Bold Blueprint for Change | The new U.S. Department of Defense Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) is an audacious and comprehensive effort to enhance compliance with the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and address concerns that the department has... |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Is Russia Exploiting a Gap in the Montreux Convention? | With the war in Ukraine in its fourth month, reports of slow and languishing Russian supply lines populate Western news feeds almost daily. The tyranny of distance and Russian miscalculation regarding the anticipated timeline of hostilities... |
| May 26, 2022 | The Legal Challenges Presented by Seizing Frozen Russian Assets | As Russia’s unlawful war of aggression continues to inflict untold devastation on Ukraine and its people, policymakers have begun to search for ways to support Ukraine’s beleaguered economy and fund its eventual reconstruction. Their attent... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | What’s the Status of Ukraine’s Case Against Russia at the ICJ? | Introduction
On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine in order to combat an alleged Ukrainian-led genocide in the country’s eastern Donbas region. He asserted that Russia “had to stop ... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | A U.N. Security Council Permanent Member’s De Facto Immunity From Article 6 Expulsion: Russia’s Fact or Fiction? | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to the United Nations on April 5 was the besieged nation’s latest call to the international community for unified aid from the nations that have already vigorously condemned Russia’s so-calle... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | The Seizure of A Russian Merchant Vessel Raises Questions About Neutrality | Amid the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, French warships recently relied on sanctions measures to intercept and seize a Russian merchant ship at sea. This detention raises an important question states should consider... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | The Law of Armed Conflict in 2040? A New Volume | I am pleased to announce Oxford University Press’s publication of “The Future Law of Armed Conflict,” a volume I co-edited with my former student and member of West Point’s law department, Tom Oakley. A version of my introduction is availab... |
| Nov 21, 2021 | Finding the Appropriate Balance of Risk in Over-the-Horizon Strikes | Editor’s Note: The killing of 10 civilians, including seven children, in a drone strike intended to target Islamic State in Khorasan province operatives was a depressing punctuation to the messy U.S. exit from Afghanistan. Although most Ame... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | The Biden Administration Joins the Military Justice Reform Debate as It Heats Up in the Senate | What can be done about the persistently high rate of sexual assault in the military, and is reforming the military justice system the way to stamp it out? It is a problem that has bedeviled the defense establishment for years. Soon after ta... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Congress Demands Accountability for Service Members | The prevalence of sexual assault that women suffer in the military has remained startlingly and stubbornly high. A decade ago, female service members faced a more than 5 percent chance of being sexually assaulted in any given year, a preval... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | What Would Happen If States Started Looking at Cyber Operations as a “Threat” to Use Force? | How are threats of force conveyed in cyberspace? When hackers compromised the SolarWinds Orion software in the spring of 2020, they trojanized the so-called Sunburst backdoor, a system designed to communicate with third-party providers. Thr... |