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Full-Text Articles in Military, War, and Peace
Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen
Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen
Faculty Scholarship
Ninety-eight percent of all U.S. government communications travel over civilian-owned-and-operated networks. Additionally, the government relies almost completely on civilian providers for computer software and hardware products, services, and maintenance. This near-complete intermixing of civilian and military computer infrastructure makes many of those civilian objects and providers legitimate targets under the law of armed conflict. Other civilian networks, services, and communications may suffer collateral damage from legitimate attacks on government targets. To protect those civilian objects and providers from the effects of attacks, the law of armed conflict requires a state to segregate its military assets from the civilian population and …
Playing By The Rules: Combating Al Qaeda Within The Law Of War, David Glazier
Playing By The Rules: Combating Al Qaeda Within The Law Of War, David Glazier
William & Mary Law Review
Although the conflict formerly known as the “war on terror” is now in its eighth year, key legal issues governing the use of force and military detention remain largely unresolved. These questions survive the Bush administration, as the United States continues to launch aerial strikes against al Qaeda and President Obama has indicated his intention to continue the use of preventative detention and military trials even after Guantánamo is closed. Military victory is not possible, but good faith application of authority from the law of war can effectively complement traditional criminal law in combating the threat. Even if the Geneva …
Muscular Procedure: Conditional Deference In The Executive Detention Cases, Joseph Landau
Muscular Procedure: Conditional Deference In The Executive Detention Cases, Joseph Landau
Washington Law Review
The executive detention cases of the past several years demonstrate a rare but critical assertion of procedural law where the political branches fail to legislate or to properly implement substantive law. This is “muscular procedure”—the invocation of a procedural device to condition deference on political branch integrity. Courts have affected the law of national security in profound ways by requiring the political branches to adhere to a judicially imposed standard of transparency and deliberation. Courts have resolved the merits of individual enemy combatant challenges by rejecting executive branch decisions based on absolute secrecy, innuendo, tentativeness, or multiple levels of hearsay, …
A Human Rights-Oriented Approach To Military Operations, Federico Sperotto
A Human Rights-Oriented Approach To Military Operations, Federico Sperotto
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Counterinsurgency is the dominant aspect of US operations in Afghanistan, and since ISAF—the NATO-led security and assistance force—has assumed growing security responsibility throughout the country, it is also a mission for the Europeans.1 The frame in which military operations are conducted is irregular warfare, a form of conflict which differs from conventional operations in two main aspects. First, it is warfare among and within the people. Second, it is warfare in which insurgents avoid a direct military confrontation, using instead unconventional methods and terrorist tactics.
© Federico Sperotto. All rights reserved.
This paper may be freely circulated in electronic or …
A Disparate Impact On Female Veterans: The Unintended Consequences Of Veterans Affairs Regulations Governing The Burdens Of Proof For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Due To Combat And Military Sexual Trauma, Jennifer C. Schingle
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
National Security Policy And Ratification Of The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Winston P. Nagan, Erin K. Slemmens
National Security Policy And Ratification Of The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Winston P. Nagan, Erin K. Slemmens
UF Law Faculty Publications
While no legal obstacles prevent the U.S. Senate's reconsideration of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), lingering doubts (about the effectiveness of the international treaty) and partisan politics (founded upon outdated ideologies of national sovereignty) may again foreclose the opportunity for the United States to lead a just and thorough regime of international arms control. By closely examining the U.S. Senate's previous rejection (and, by implication, the nation's non-ratification) of the CTBT, we assess the political process that failed to realize the security values now imperative to U.S. national defense. To this appraisal, we join analysis of the contemporary law, policy, …
Fear And Projection As Root Causes Of War, And The Archetypal Energies "Trust" And "Peace" As Antidotes, Carroy U. Ferguson
Fear And Projection As Root Causes Of War, And The Archetypal Energies "Trust" And "Peace" As Antidotes, Carroy U. Ferguson
Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.
I want to use this opportunity to discuss a phenomenon that continues to plague the human experience. It is called the game of war. War is perhaps the deadliest game that humanity has created. The conflict itself represents what appears to be opposing views about the way things should be. Each side believes that it is right and that its actions are justified. Each side therefore seeks to impose its views on the other or to defend its views against the other. Each side fears the other as an enemy and each side projects its fears onto its perceived “enemy.”
Jews In Jail, Kenneth Lasson
The Eighty Percent And Twenty Percent Solutions To Nuclear Proliferation , Matthew Lund
The Eighty Percent And Twenty Percent Solutions To Nuclear Proliferation , Matthew Lund
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Taking Up The Security Challenge Of Climate Change, Rymn J. Parsons
Taking Up The Security Challenge Of Climate Change, Rymn J. Parsons
Rymn J Parsons, Esq.
Climate change, in which man-made global warming is a major factor, will likely have dramatic and long lasting consequences with profound security implications, making it a challenge the United States must urgently take up. The security implications will be most pronounced in places where the effects of climate change are greatest, particularly affecting weak states already especially vulnerable to environmental destabilization. Two things are vitally important: stemming the tide of climate change and adapting to its far-reaching consequences. This project examines the destabilizing effects of climate change and how the military could be used to mitigate global warming and to …
Afghanistan And International Security, Adam Roberts
Afghanistan And International Security, Adam Roberts
International Law Studies
No abstract provided.
Human Rights And Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency And Trends In The Law Of, Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley, Chris Jenks
Human Rights And Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency And Trends In The Law Of, Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley, Chris Jenks
Scholarly Works
The past several decades have seen a Copernican shift in the paradigm of armed conflict, which the traditional Law of International Armed Conflict (LOIAC) canon has not fully matched. Standing out in stark relief against the backdrop of relative inactivity in LOIAC, is the surfeit of activity in the field of international human rights law, which has become a dramatic new force in the ancient realm of international law. Human rights law, heretofore not formally part of the traditional juridico-military calculus, has gained ever increasing salience in that calculus. Indeed, human rights law has ramified in such a manner that …
Justice After War: Sri Lanka And The Rights And Duties Of A Vanquisher, William Paul Simmons
Justice After War: Sri Lanka And The Rights And Duties Of A Vanquisher, William Paul Simmons
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Human rights scholars, attorneys, and activists will deservedly focus on the human rights abuses committed by the Sri Lankan military as the decades - long civil war against the Tamil Tigers came to a crushing end this past spring. The military’s brutality, especially its failure to discriminate combatants from non-combatants, should be investigated by both domestic and transnational institutions. It remains to be seen whether such wanton disregard for civilian collateral damage will become the norm for regimes embroiled in civil wars and present yet another realpolitik threat to humanitarian law, or will Sri Lanka and other regimes face accountability …
July Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
What Next for Sri Lanka's 2.5 Million Tamils? by Amantha Perera. Time. May 26, 2009.
and
How to Defeat Insurgencies: Sri Lanka's Bad Example by Bobby Ghosh. Time, May 20, 2009.
The War Goes On - No Reconciliation At This Stage, Anja Mihr
The War Goes On - No Reconciliation At This Stage, Anja Mihr
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The victorious Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaska has been quite bold to pass a reconciliation note after he declared the thirty year war over. Can he be taken seriously?
Moving Beyond Conflict In Sri Lanka: The Economic Rights Dimension, Shareen Hertel
Moving Beyond Conflict In Sri Lanka: The Economic Rights Dimension, Shareen Hertel
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Much of the literature on transitional justice underplays the role of economic rights in shoring up peace. The case of Sri Lanka demonstrates the urgency of addressing them. Until a month ago, Sri Lanka was the country with Asia’s longest running civil war. Since independence in 1947, the island nation has been wracked by conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority—a conflict that has eroded political stability and aggravated internal inequalities. The struggle was marked not only by inter-ethnic and religious tensions but also by a fight for control over land and resources.
Moving In The Open Daylight, Nicola Colbran
Moving In The Open Daylight, Nicola Colbran
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The road ahead for Sri Lanka is certainly not easy. Although the government has declared that the LTTE ( Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) has been defeated, this “victory” has come at a high cost for civilian lives and democratic values. Decades of instability and violence have given rise to deep rooted and sustained human rights violations. Thousands of Sri Lankans have been displaced, killed or wounded, and are malnourished and traumatized after months of extended fighting between the two sides.
Looking Forward, Backward, Or Just Away?, Chandra Lekha Sriram
Looking Forward, Backward, Or Just Away?, Chandra Lekha Sriram
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The declassification and leaking of the so-called “torture memos” only supplements much which was already publicly well-known, but has offered a fresh opportunity to frankly debate American values, in particular its commitment to the rule of law, its own constitution, and international human rights and humanitarian law obligations to which it has committed itself, and which the Supreme Court has confirmed are part of domestic law. It is a shame, therefore, that the debate has been so stunted, diverted by the red herring of Dick Cheney’s rantings, and the apparent willingness of a segment of the population to accept, first, …
Let Us Not Become The Evil We Deplore, Rebecca Otis
Let Us Not Become The Evil We Deplore, Rebecca Otis
Human Rights & Human Welfare
On 14 September 2001, Representative Barbara Lee (CA-D) voted against the House bill that granted President Bush the authority to use force in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. As the sole person to vote against the bill (by a margin of 420-1), Lee was roundly vilified as a “traitor,” a “coward, and even a “communist.” Later that day, as the only voice of dissent on the House floor, Lee delivered a speech to justify her position. Famously, she said to the elected representatives of our country, “As we act, let us not become …
Response To Mark Danner’S “The Red Cross’ Torture Report: What It Means”, Charli Carpenter
Response To Mark Danner’S “The Red Cross’ Torture Report: What It Means”, Charli Carpenter
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Danner’s NY Review of Books treatise on torture calls our attention to many significant issues, but in his key argument he is critically wrong.
June Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
“The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means.” by Mark Danner. The New York Review of Books. April 30, 2009.
Righting Past, Present And Future Wrongs, Rhona Smith
Righting Past, Present And Future Wrongs, Rhona Smith
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Three legal issues are raised by the centerpiece of this month’s Roundtable: Does the legal definition of torture include “enhanced interrogation techniques”? What are the legal responsibilities of a State when torture is committed by its agents? and What should the State do now to prevent future violations of human rights? In other words, one must characterize the actions of the past, ameliorate the damage in the present, and prevent a recurrence in the future.
Torture—And Our Broader Understanding Of Human Rights, Mark Gibney
Torture—And Our Broader Understanding Of Human Rights, Mark Gibney
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Like most other human rights scholars, I am appalled at the idea that those people in the Bush White House who designed the administration’s policy on torture (but calling it something else) will in all likelihood go unpunished. In my view, the law is clear on this matter: those who directed and/or carried out torture must be held accountable for their actions. However, rather than focusing on the issue of accountability, I will use the issue of torture to make a broader point about how we have come to conceptualize the extent and scope of a state’s human rights obligations.
The Moral High Ground In An Age Of Vulnerability, Tyler Moselle
The Moral High Ground In An Age Of Vulnerability, Tyler Moselle
Human Rights & Human Welfare
Mark Danner’s New York Review of Books piece on torture in conjunction with John Nichols’ comment on the Bush administration, outline moral, legal and political problems related to the global war on terrorism and the ascendancy of the American imperial presidency. Most people seem to be repulsed by the idea of torture but are not morally committed enough or fully dedicated to prevent it from being employed to defend their way of life. Torture is a policy decision predicated on fear, self-defense, and vulnerability in an age of globalized insurgency: one way to respond is to take the moral high …
Diagnosing And Analyzing Flawed Investigations: Abu Ghraib As A Case Study, Keith Rohman
Diagnosing And Analyzing Flawed Investigations: Abu Ghraib As A Case Study, Keith Rohman
Penn State International Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rhetoric Without Results: United Nations Security Council Resolutions Concerning Rape During Armed Conflict, Rachel Schreck
Rhetoric Without Results: United Nations Security Council Resolutions Concerning Rape During Armed Conflict, Rachel Schreck
Penn State International Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cyberwarfare And The Use Of Force Giving Rise To The Right Of Self-Defense, Matthew Hoisington
Cyberwarfare And The Use Of Force Giving Rise To The Right Of Self-Defense, Matthew Hoisington
Matthew Hoisington
Cyberwarfare represents a novel weapon that has the potential to alter the way state and non-state actors conduct modern war. The unique nature of the threat and the ability for cyberwar practioners to inflict injury, death, and physical destruction via cyberspace strains traditional definitions of the use of force. In order to clearly delineate the rights of the parties involved, including the right to self-defense, the international community must come to some consensus on the meaning of cyberwarfare within the existing jus ad bellum paradigm. After examining the shortcomings inherent in classifying cyberattacks according to classical notions of kinetic warfare, …
What Went Wrong: Torture And The Office Of Legal Counsel In The Bush Administration: Hearing Before The Subcomm. On Administrative Oversight And The Courts Of The S. Comm. On The Judiciary, 111th Cong., May 13, 2009 (Statement Of David Luban, Prof. Of Law, Geo. U. L. Center), David Luban
Testimony Before Congress
The mission of the Office of Legal Counsel is to give the President advice to guide him in fulfilling an awesome constitutional obligation: to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Faithful execution means interpreting the law without stretching it and without looking for loopholes. OLC's job is not to rubber-stamp administration policies, and it is not to provide legal cover for illegal actions.
Unfortunately, the interrogation memos fall far short of professional standards of candid advice and independent judgment. They involve a selective and in places deeply eccentric reading of the law. The memos cherry-pick sources of law …
Preventive War, Deterrent Retaliation, And Retrospective Disproportionality, Brian Angelo Lee
Preventive War, Deterrent Retaliation, And Retrospective Disproportionality, Brian Angelo Lee
BYU Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Case Against National Security Courts, Stephen I. Vladeck
The Case Against National Security Courts, Stephen I. Vladeck
Stephen I. Vladeck
Since September 11, calls for a hybrid national security court to handle special terrorism cases have taken on a new-found prominence, as courts and policymakers alike have struggled with the complex series of legal and logistical problems posed by the U.S. government's detention of enemy combatants, especially the hundreds of non-citizens so detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. National security courts are, for many, an increasingly attractive compromise solution to the seemingly irreconcilable division between those who believe that terrorism suspects are not entitled to the traditional criminal process and those who believe not only that they are, but that any …