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2 months ago | 
theohiopressnetwork.com | John Spencer |Geoffrey S. Corn
In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. According to U.S. military joint doctrine, legitimacy is one of the twelve principles of joint operations.
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2 months ago | 
thepress.net | John Spencer |Geoffrey S. Corn
In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. According to U.S. military joint doctrine, legitimacy is one of the twelve principles of joint operations.
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2 months ago | 
realcleardefense.com | John Spencer |Geoffrey S. Corn
In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. According to U.S. military joint doctrine, legitimacy is one of the twelve principles of joint operations.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
realcleardefense.com | John Spencer |Geoffrey S. Corn
In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
realcleardefense.com | John Spencer |Geoffrey S. Corn
In urban warfare, where combat unfolds amid a multitude of civilians and dense infrastructures, maintaining legitimacy is not merely a legal formality—it is a strategic imperative. According to U.S. military joint doctrine, legitimacy is one of the twelve principles of joint operations.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Geoffrey S. Corn
Posted: January 16th, 2025
OPINION — Just because they could, they did. That is the gist of a recent New York Times article suggesting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made a deliberate decision to green-light increased civilian casualties.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Geoffrey S. Corn
OPINION — Gaza. The word immediately evokes images of wartime carnage. For us, however, it represents something else: an example of the danger inherent in wars in which civilian casualties are an enemy’s principal ammunition for winning the strategic information battle; enemies who simply do not anticipate or seek military victory. This was exemplified during our recent participation in a fact-finding visit to Gaza with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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May 22, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Geoffrey S. Corn |Orde F. Kittrie
President Joe Biden was right to condemn as “outrageous” Monday’s decision by the International Criminal Court prosecutor to submit arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. Unfortunately, an ill-informed report and comments last week by Biden’s own Secretary of State, on Israel’s use of American-made weapons, may have contributed to the prosecutor’s decision.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
thinc-israel.org | Geoffrey S. Corn
Translating National Self-Defense to Military Operational ScaleBy Prof. Geoffrey Corn One of the most common criticisms of the Israeli military campaign against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad is that it is both overly aggressive and indiscriminate, resulting in a massive-scale of civilian casualties in violation of international law.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
newsweek.com | Geoffrey S. Corn
01:14Senate Armed Services Committee Debate Military Recruitment Challenges By Geoffrey S. Corn Professor and retired Army officer Patriot, perhaps an over-invoked description, surely fits those who volunteer to serve the nation in uniform. But among them, it is humbling to consider the depth of devotion to a nation and an institution that, when it became so acute, failed to treat its own fairly. It is more humbling when that failure is acknowledged, which the Army did last week.
