The M72 LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) is a portable, one-shot 66mm unguided anti-tank weapon that became a staple of US infantry forces in the early 1960s, replacing the “Super Bazooka.” -Inspired in ...

National security depends on citizens’ trust in our armed forces. We lose that if we turn soldiers into law-enforcement ...

Other legal scholars see it differently, arguing that Israel’s military operation in Iran is part of a defensive response to ...

International law offers some protection to the environment during armed conflicts. Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibits methods of warfare that may cause ...

Many armed forces were involved in the Syrian conflict, including state and non-state actors. The Assad regime received support from Russia and Iran to fight against many rebel factions.

When analyzing an Israeli attack on Hezbollah using the principles of the law of armed conflict (LOAC)—specifically military necessity, proportionality, discrimination, and unnecessary suffering—it is ...

Once conflict begins, every organized armed group participating is bound by international humanitarian law. The second point is that those laws are universal, not reciprocal.

Sources of Law Governing Use of Force and Armed Conflict. The laws governing armed conflict are set out in treaties, international charters and a body of principles known as customary ...

“The law of armed conflict balances the military need to defeat the enemy with the humanitarian need to protect civilians,” he told Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin.

LIKE the rest of international law, international humanitarian law has been slow in providing the environment with a set of rules of law specific to it. Thus, the word 'environment' does not even ...