Conflict Classification and Cyber Operations: Gaps, Ambiguities and Fault Lines
Year: 2019

This Article examines whether the conflict classification paradigm for international humanitarian law ("IHL") established by the 1949 Geneva Conventions is adequate to regulate armed conflicts that center, in whole or in part, on cyber operations.The analysis herein, presented in seven parts, answers that question affirmatively, but posits that the advent of cyber operations has exposed certain gaps, ambiguities, and fault lines in IHL's conflict classification framework.After the Introduction,