by Greg McNeal | May 11, 2011 | Archive
I’ve posted to () the abstract for my piece entitled . Here are the details: This paper explains how the U.S. military estimates and mitigates the impact of conventional weapons on collateral persons and objects in most military operations involving...
by Greg McNeal | May 5, 2011 | Archive
I’m reposting (with permission) a piece that was just published by Foreign Policy magazine entitled The Bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones. Why did the United States choose to launch a raid against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s...
by Greg McNeal | May 2, 2011 | Archive
Beyond confirming that Bin Laden was actually the person killed in Abottabad, what is the significance of troops being on the ground to conduct the Bin Laden Operation? Can their presence lead us to the new #1 in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri? In the coming days we...
by Greg McNeal | May 2, 2011 | Archive
I’m guest blogging over at Opinio Juris, below is a repost of something I wrote there: First off, there is a lot of talk about this operation being a “human operation” involving special operations forces. Some readers may assume that this meant there were no...
by Greg McNeal | Apr 14, 2011 | Archive
I’m very excited about my upcoming participation in a conference at The University of Pennsylvania Law School. The conference is entitled “Using Targeted Killing to Fight the War on Terror: Philosophical, Moral and Legal Challenges.” Here is the...
by Greg McNeal | Jun 7, 2010 | Archive
This story in the Washington Times will make you sick. At Reagan National Airport passengers on overbooked flights refused to give up their seats so a family could accompany their Marine son home for his funeral. A few volunteers stepped up, but not enough, and...
