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An Analysis Of The Legal Status Of Cia Officers Involved In Drone Strikes, Donna R. Cline
An Analysis Of The Legal Status Of Cia Officers Involved In Drone Strikes, Donna R. Cline
San Diego International Law Journal
This Article introduces international humanitarian law as the applicable legal standard, and develops the distinction between international and non-international armed conflict. Section II will define the key elements used to determine whether a situation of hostilities rises to the level of an armed conflict: the intensity of the conflict and the organization of the parties. Furthermore, this section will analyze the idea of internationalized armed conflict and examine the standard for determining when an attack by an armed group may be attributed to a State. Section III of this article describes the different categories of actors found in situations of …