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The Geography Of The Battlefield: A Framework For Detention And Targeting Outside The 'Hot' Conflict Zone, Jennifer Daskal Jan 2013

The Geography Of The Battlefield: A Framework For Detention And Targeting Outside The 'Hot' Conflict Zone, Jennifer Daskal

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The U.S. conflict with al Qaeda raises a number of complicated and contested questions regarding the geographic scope of the battlefield and the related limits on the state’s authority to use lethal force and to detain without charge. To date, the legal and policy discussions on this issue have resulted in a heated and intractable debate. On the one hand, the United States and its supporters argue that the conflict — and broad detention and targeting authorities — extend to wherever the alleged enemy is found, subject to a series of malleable policy constraints. On the other hand, European allies, …


Law And Ethics For Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why A Ban Won't Work And How The Laws Of War Can, Kenneth Anderson, Matthew Waxman Jan 2013

Law And Ethics For Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why A Ban Won't Work And How The Laws Of War Can, Kenneth Anderson, Matthew Waxman

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Stanford University, The Hoover Institution (Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law Essay Series) American University Washington College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-11 Columbia Public Law Research Paper 13-351 Abstract: Public debate is heating up over the future development of autonomous weapon systems. Some concerned critics portray that future, often invoking science-fiction imagery, as a plain choice between a world in which those systems are banned outright and a world of legal void and ethical collapse on the battlefield. Yet an outright ban on autonomous weapon systems, even if it could be made effective, trades whatever risks …