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Command Responsibility and Laws of War in Hostile UAV Operations
International LawRussia-Ukraine Conflict6 March, 2022
RAUSI presents Dr LJ Howard
Command Responsibility and Laws of War in Hostile UAV Operations
as presented at the 2022 Annual Security and Defence Symposium, 5 March 2022, Edmonton, AB
The legal doctrine of ‘Command Responsibility’ emanates from long standing treaty law, customary international law and jurisprudence. Senior military commanders, by virtue of: (i) formalized authority vested in their appointment; (ii) necessary and presumed effective lines of reporting within the military, are deemed to know of breaches of law of war, e.g., international humanitarian law, committed by their subordinates. Commanders are legally obligated to repress / investigate / report on same, or otherwise may be found in breach of CR and be punished, as was General Yamashita post WWII. Similar effect derives from ‘Superior Responsibility’ concerning civilian leadership.
About the Presenter
LJ Howard. PhD (international law, 中国政法大学, Beijing), LL.M. (Leiden), MA (diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, U/London), CPA. Trained at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (Estonia), US Naval Postgraduate School Centre for Civil-Military Relations (California), UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Geneva). Deployed w/ Standing High Readiness Brigade for UN Operations and NATO to Sudan, Bosnia, Congo. Consulted to UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Office of Internal Oversight Service, US Department of Defence in west Africa, eastern Europe. Offering contract services in policy/operational research and planning, oversight, defense & security, humanitarian operations, geopolitics.
Dr Howard is an active member of RAUSI and serves on the Board as Secretary/Treasurer and Research Director.
Links Referenced in Video
Successful Test Flight For Taranis Drone | Forces TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPAOO5LoFvM
We May Have the First Case of a Robot Deliberately Killing Humans
https://militarymatters.online/defense-news/we-may-have-the-first-case-of-a-robot-deliberately-killing-humans/
Loitering UAV swarm from China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QamGaDNczJw&t=7s