scholarly journals Nuove cartografie militari

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Francesca Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Military Geography

The article pays attention on the changes made to the spatiality of the conflict since the introduction of new military technologies, weapon systems and methods of use. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the use of Unmanned Aerial Veichle (UAV) in contemporary armed conflicts and how, these one, affects many aspects of the spatiality of the conflict, with more attention to the role played by borders. The study of the debate on critical military geography helps a critical reading of war which helps to consider war as a social phenomenon too.

Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boothby William H
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
The Law

This book brings the legal rules governing the use of weapons in armed conflict together into a single volume and interprets and applies those principles and rules to particular weapons technologies. It is the essential reference book for anyone dealing or concerned with the international law applying to weaponry. After relating the historical evolution of weapons law, identifying its sources and discussing the important customary principles that are the foundation of the subject, the book explains to the reader in a logical sequence of chapters how treaty and customary rules apply to particular categories of weapon or to relevant technologies, both traditional and novel. Having explained to the reader how the existing law applies across the full range of weapons technologies, the book discusses how this dynamic field of international law may be expected to develop in the years ahead. This new edition tackles challenging weapons law issues such as the new treaty law on expanding bullets and on the arms trade, novel technologies in the fields of chemistry and biology, the topical controversies associated with autonomous and automated weapon systems, and how law applies to weapons in outer space and to cyber weapons. The law applicable in non-international armed conflicts is summarized; compliance and weapon reviews are carefully explained; and recent international and national military manuals, and other developments in the wider literature, are thoroughly reflected throughout the text.

The Second Review Conference of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 922-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kaye ◽  
Steven A. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Optical Quality ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Conventional Weapons ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
United Nations Convention

The United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) of 1980 regulates the use in armed conflict of certain conventional arms deemed to cause excessive suffering to combatants or indiscriminate harm to civilian populations. In December 2001, CCW high contracting parties concluded a Second Review Conference of the Convention in Geneva. Unlike the First Review Conference of 1995-1996, which focused on land mines and blinding laser weapons, the Second Review Conference attracted modest public and media attention. This difference was due in part to the fact that the conference principally focused on an improvement of the Convention thatwasjuridicalin nature, lacking an “optical” quality typically associated with proposals to restrict particular weapon systems. Even so, the conference generated substantial governmental interest and a remarkable development in international humanitarian law: expansion of the scope of application of the Convention, previously limited to conflicts between sovereign states, to noninternational armed conflicts. This expanded scope, if widely observed, should influence the use of particular weapons in internal armed conflicts. More important, the expansion reinforces the trend toward reducing the distinction between international and noninternational armed conflicts for purposes of the rules governing the conduct of hostilities. This trend carries implications both for which weapons are used in warfare and how, and for the international criminalization of violations of the rules of noninternational armed conflict.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Armoured Vehicles in Urban Warfare Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Gökhan İbrahim Öğünç
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
World War ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Combat Vehicle ◽  
Urban Warfare ◽  
Second World

Since the Second World War, the major armed conflicts have been occurred in or in the vicinity of the urban areas rather than rural areas, amongst conventional armies and armed groups or terrorists/insurgents. The architectural and construction characteristics of the urban area increase the opportunities for armed groups to ambush, easily escape, conceal, relocate and attack. Additionally, the narrow streets, the blocked roads by the debris of buildings, and IED threats make the urban areas one of the most dangerous conditions for infantries and armoured vehicles. The majority of present armoured combat vehicle types due to the limited visibility, low manoeuvre capability, and limited firing power, they are insufficient for performing the standalone operation without infantry forces and combat engineer support in urban warfare conditions. In this study, 13.400 data belonging to 676 attacks towards armoured vehicles during the counter-terrorism operations against PKK/PYD and ISIS in the urban areas were analysed within the perspective of forensic science techniques such as forensic ballistics and shooting reconstruction. According to the examinations and analyses carried out within the scope of this study; the leading critical features that an armoured combat vehicle that will operate in the urban areas may be listed under five general headings: Structure, Ballistic Protection and Armour, Self Defence and Weapon Systems, Situational/peripheral Awareness and C4I2 Systems and Integrated Warfare Systems.

The Future of Proportionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Amichai Cohen ◽  
David Zlotogorski
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Cyber Warfare ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality ◽  
Modern Warfare ◽  
The Way

The final chapter of the book presents three developments in modern warfare that might affect the way the principle of proportionality will be applied in the future. The first is the development of “image-fare”—the use of the way that the armed conflicts and their effects are perceived through the lenses of the media and social networks; second, cyber warfare, and its influence over the interpretations of proportionality; and third, the development of autonomous weapon systems. The chapter suggests that all these areas might change the way we perceive the principle of proportionality, and that further research should be directed at exploring these changes.

ICRC Q&A on the issue of explosive weapons in populated areas

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (901) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Impact Area

Hostilities in contemporary armed conflicts are increasingly being conducted in population centres, thereby exposing civilians to heightened risks of harm. This trend is only likely to continue with growing urbanization and is compounded by the fact that belligerents often avoid facing their enemy in the open, intermingling instead with the civilian population. Despite this, armed conflicts often continue to be waged with weapon systems originally designed for use in open battlefields. There is generally no cause for concern when explosive weapons with a wide impact area are used in open battlefields, but when they are used against military objectives located in populated areas they are prone to indiscriminate effects, often with devastating consequences for the civilian population.

Adolescent Health in Rural Southwest Norfolk County: A Social Phenomenon

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Morris ◽  
Marilyn Antkiw
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Social Phenomenon

Trends in armed conflicts: one-sided violence against civilians

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Violence Against Civilians
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