Dismissing the importance of the law of war is a recipe for strategic disaster, the author of this op-ed argues. Here, U.S. soldiers provide suppressing fire during an exercise at Novo Selo Training ...

All wars are an effrontery to health, and the Israel-Hamas war is no exception. Caring for the wounded is a necessary part of waging war and hospitals are protected from the consequence of hostilities ...

This past July, Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech and a former judge advocate general in the U.S. Army, joined the Israel Defense Forces on a tour of the Rafah border. Within hours of Hamas ...

Cliff Rieders, of Rieders, Travis, Dohrmann, Mowrey Humphrey & Waters. Courtesy photo There is a well-known story, absolutely the truth, that during the liquidation of the Jewish Warsaw ghetto during ...

Israel used the word preemptive to describe its strikes on Iran over a week ago. The U.S. described its strikes over the weekend as a deterrent. And Iran is claiming the right to self-defense. So what ...

“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 ...

As Maj. Keith Petty, then an Army judge advocate, explained in an excellent summary of the law in a 2016 piece in Just ...

Thomas Gift does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

"Leader actions are emulated and exaggerated." The U.S. Army's recent decision to make law of war training optional is a troubling manifestation of this axiom and an exaggeration of the disdain with ...