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Great article at MilitaryTimes.com regarding Command Responsibility and Optional Law of War Training

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by Travis Normand
May 19, 2025

I found the following opinion piece over at MilitaryTimes.com and thought it was great, so I figured I would share it / repost it here. I couldn’t agree more with the basic theme of the article which is that law of war training should not be optional for the military. This applies to so many things in life, as more training and education is never a bad thing, especially when it relates directly to your job as as an officer or soldier in the military.

Making law of war training optional is a recipe for disaster
by Geoffrey S. Corn
Friday, May 16, 2025
Posted at MilitaryTimes.com

For more, you can click the following link to read about “Command Responsibility” (see Yamashita standard) which is alluded to in the opinion piece above.

See also U.S. Supreme Court (4 February 1946), Application of Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1 (1946) [full text of the opinion]

Applying the LOAC to current Middle East conflicts

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Posted by Travis Normand
April 18, 2017

A great discussion involving Geoff Corn (moderator), Ken Watkin, Mike Meier, and Rich Goss regarding the Law of Armed Conflict and its applicability in modern conflicts. This panel discussion was hosted by the University of Virginia Law School’s Center for National Security Law. 

While the entire video is almost an hour and a half long, it is well worth your time.

Video Recorded and Published by the University of Virginia School of Law on March 10, 2017 (with the following caption):

A panel of national security law experts discusses the challenges of translating traditional rules of war to the unconventional conflicts taking place in the Middle East. The panel consists of Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Ken Watkin (former Judge Advocate General, Canadian Armed Forces); Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Rich Gross (former legal counsel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Michael Meier (office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Army). Geoff Corn, South Texas College of Law, moderates. This panel was part of the UVA Law conference “Region in Turmoil: Conflicts in the Middle East.” (University School of Law, March 2, 2017)
Hyperlinks added by Travis Normand.