Volume 17, Issue 1
Articles “Violent, Vicious, and Fast”: LSCO Lawyering and the Transformation of American IHL By Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh In this Article, I examine a phenomenon unfolding within the United States’s military legal establishment: an effort by a segment of military lawyers to define how the law of armed conflict (LOAC) applies to the wars they anticipate fighting in the future. I refer to this effort as LSCO lawyering: the development, advancement, and institutionalization of a vision of LOAC tailored to large-scale combat operations (LSCOs), understood here as multi-domain warfare against a peer adversary such as China. Drawing on doctrinal materials, planning […]