by Greg McNeal | Jul 19, 2012 | Archive
Over at Forbes I have a new piece about the Army’s new manual for preventing and mitigating harm to civilians in combat. Here is an excerpt: Today, the United States Army published what I believe is the first military manual aimed solely at preventing and...
by Greg McNeal | Mar 11, 2012 | Archive
Now available on SSRN is my newest piece, Are Targeted Killings Unlawful? A Case Study in Empirical Claims Without Empirical Evidence. In the piece I argue that critics of the U.S. policy of targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) generally...
by Greg McNeal | Nov 30, 2011 | Archive
Over at Lawfare I’ve posted a short summary of my collateral damage piece. You can access the summary here. To give you a feel for the flavor of the blog post, here is my concluding paragraph: “Taken together, the CDM process provides predictions about...
by Greg McNeal | Nov 26, 2011 | Archive
Ben Wittes, writing at Lawfare was kind enough to pen a write-up on my empirical paper The U.S. Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation. I consider this a high honor. Here is Ben’s take: Whatever your view of the merits of targeted killing,...