The recent decision by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to dismiss the Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs) of the Army, Navy, and Air Force marks a troubling departure from the decades-long commitment of the ...

International courts have never been busier. Conflicts are more common than at any point since 1945. Ever more civilians are being bombed, starved and raped by men with guns. These are the curses that ...

(June 24, 2022) U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships participates in a photo exercise while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, June 24. Sioux City is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ...

THIS IS A perilous moment for all who seek to regulate conflict with law. From Europe to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, brutal acts by violent men are challenging the international order ...

“We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pledge of "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies" violates a bright‑line ban in the laws of war, legal experts say. Why it matters: International humanitarian law ...

The Just War Theory may seem a bloodless and abstract way to think about a subject that is among the worst impulses of the ...