Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> AIDP Blog

Criminal Law

: AIDP Blog

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Operationalizing the Law of Armed Conflict in New Warfare

By International Association of Penal Law

See the article, Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Operationalizing the Law of Armed Conflict in New Warfare, that I co-authored with Laurie R. Blank from Emory Law School which will be published in the inaugural volume of the Harvard National Security Journal. Abstract:      Current strategy in Afghanistan starkly illustrates the extraordinary challenges new warfare poses for commanders on the ground. U.S. forces fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but must do so while above all protecting Afghan civilians from both enemy attacks and the effects of U.S. counterinsurgency operations ? a difficult and complicated task. As new warfare became a prevalent ? and now predominant ? form of conflict, the law did not adapt appropriately to the complicated scenarios new warfare presented...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).