<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Drones are new means and methods of warfare which, apparently, are similar to combat aircrafts. A big difference between the two categories is the human personnel involved. Compared with airplanes, carrying a human crew on board - this one carrying out combat operations from inside the aircraft - drones do not have inside human beings, being coordinated from the ground (or sea) - the military actions carrying out from the place where the operators are. So the question arises: what kind of rules of international humanitarian law are applicable to the use of drones in armed conflicts? Starting from the rule that legal rules apply to legal relationships between people (but not directly to objects or animals), I analyze to what extent these means and methods of warfare are subject to the rules of armed conflict on land, sea or air.</p></abstract>

Drones are new means and methods of warfare which, apparently, are similar to combat aircrafts. A big difference between the two categories is the human personnel involved. Compared with airplanes, carrying a human crew on board - this one carrying out combat operations from inside the aircraft - drones do not have inside human beings, being coordinated from the ground (or sea) - the military actions carrying out from the place where the operators are. So the question arises: what kind of rules of international humanitarian law are applicable to the use of drones in armed conflicts? Starting from the rule that legal rules apply to legal relationships between people (but not directly to objects or animals), I analyze to what extent these means and methods of warfare are subject to the rules of armed conflict on land, sea or air.

Issues on The Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law to The Use of Drones in Armed Conflicts

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Drones are new means and methods of warfare which, apparently, are similar to combat aircrafts. A big difference between the two categories is the human...

Issues on The Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law to The Use of Drones in Armed Conflicts

Published Online: Jul 25, 2017

Page range: 167 - 170

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2017-0107

Keywords
land warfare, air warfare, drones, international humanitarian law

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Issues on The Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law to The Use of Drones in Armed Conflicts

Published Online: Jul 25, 2017

Page range: 167 - 170

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2017-0107

Keywordsland warfare, air warfare, drones, international humanitarian law

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
land warfare, air warfare, drones, international humanitarian law