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Fall Cyberwar Symposium Panel 1: When Is A Virus A War Crime - Targetability And Collateral Damage Under The Law Of Armed Conflict, American University National Security Law Brief
Fall Cyberwar Symposium Panel 1: When Is A Virus A War Crime - Targetability And Collateral Damage Under The Law Of Armed Conflict, American University National Security Law Brief
American University National Security Law Brief
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Efficiency In Bello And Ad Bellum: Making The Use Of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson
Efficiency In Bello And Ad Bellum: Making The Use Of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson
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This article criticizes a widely asserted claim that drones make the resort to force and violence — war — “too easy.” Attractive on the surface to many, this article says that “too easy” is not a coherent notion as applied in war. The “too easy” argument comes in two forms, a moral argument and a maximization of social welfare argument. The maximization of social welfare version (on which the article focuses) frames “too easy” as a matter of creating an “inefficient” level of disincentive to use of force on account of insufficient risks to one’s own forces in so doing …