Author: Colonel Noam Neuman PDF: Challenges in the Interpretation and Application of the Principle of Distinction During Ground Operations in Urban Areas Abstract/Intro: This Article focuses on the tension between the often-referred-to articulation of the principle of distinction, as reflected in Additional Protocol I, and four practices that have been continuously employed in ground operations by most if not all of the world’s militaries: masking, firing warning shots, breac

Author: Dr. Agnieszka Jachec-Neale PDF: Targeting State and Political Leadership in Armed Conflicts Abstract/Intro: Despite repeated attacks on various figures of authority and political leaders such as Saddam Hussein, the scholarly debates in the law of armed conflict have not given much attention to an analysis of if, and if so, when, state and political leadership may be subject to lawful attack, or the question of when physical objects associated with exercising of the of