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(Un)happy new year and new fatalities
Casualty statistics are notoriously difficult to verify and the fatalities from drone strikes and targeted killings are especially fraught with complications, both methodologically and politically...
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The new/old international law (journal)
Somehow I missed the release of the new Oxford University Press London Review of International Law journal last September (Thanks Frédéric Mégret for the heads-up). I’m very excited about this and...
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Intercepting, disseminating, researching
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA)Source: Trevor Paglen A week ago, First Look Media – FLM – went live with its first publication, The Intercept. If you haven’t already checked it out, you must. FLM is...
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Data and weapons releases
This is the first in a short series of posts about British drones. Source: dronewars.net Earlier this month the Ministry of Defence provided new figures detailing the number and type of weapons fired –...
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Seeing the secret state with Paglen
Earlier this week I blogged about Trevor Paglen’s new work over at Intercept, and now Joseph Lee (via Gab Olah) send news of a talk Paglen gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last...
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The royal reepers and the new MoD air show
This is the second post in a short series on British drones: for the first, see here. Newly graduated RAF drone pilots, the first to be trained solely for remote flightSource: SWNS Late last year the...
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Critical Military Studies
Lisa Hajjar sends news this morning of a new journal and new website from Critical Military Studies. The first issue will be out in 2015, but in the meantime the website is up and running and well...
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Israel & Global Militarism
Word today from James Eastwood (SOAS) that he and Leila Stockmarr (also SOAS) are putting together what sounds like a terrific session on Israel and global militarism at next years International...
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Gaza, again
It was November 2012 when missiles last rained down over Gaza to the extent that they do, once again, today. It was those bombings that prompted me to start this blog and looking back to my first post...
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Operation Exposure
I always wonder how militaries come up with names for their operations. Names are never innocent, of course, and the latest IDF creation – Operation Protective Edge – scripts the current operation as...
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knock, knock…bomb
Airstrike in Rafah, Southern Gaza yesterday. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images “Hi, my name is Danny. I’m an officer in Israeli military intelligence. In one hour we will blow up your house.“...
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Low deeds and lofty heights
Gideon Levy has written a searing piece at Haaretz that takes aim at Israeli Air Force Pilots for wielding incredible power against a defenceless people. His point is an obvious one and has been made a...
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Frames of law and the ‘prosecution’ of war
Under the ‘works in progress‘ tab I have uploaded a paper that is currently under peer review. It’s called ‘Frames of law: Targeting advice and operational law in the Israeli Defense Force‘ and it...
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Civilians in war
jonescraig:I’m in rural France and barely able to read the news let alone comment on events in Gaza. The article below by Christiane Wilke, however, should not be missed. A slightly different version...
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In the image of B’Tselem
Ultra-Orthodox Jews studying in seminaries were exempt from national service since Israel’s foundation until March 2014. Source: BBC As most readers will already know, Israel has compulsory military...
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The legal geographies of war and violence
The International Conference of Critical Geography in Ramallah next July has extended its deadline for submissions to December 20th (info here). This is an important conference, especially because of...
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‘Deterrent destruction': nothing is immune
A new report about Israel’s war on Gaza earlier this year has been published by Amnesty International today. It focuses on the deliberate destruction of civilian and government infrastructure, and on...
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Frames of law – Israeli resaerch
My research on Israeli military lawyers has finally been published over at Environment & Planning D: Society and Space. You can read the full version, entitled ‘Frames of law: operational legal...
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