Article 2(4)

What Would Happen If States Started Looking at Cyber Operations as a “Threat” to Use Force?

Duncan B. Hollis, Tsvetelina van Benthem Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 2:44 PM

States and other stakeholders can use Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter to bar not just uses of force in cyberspace but also threats of such force by equal measure.

AUMF

A Daisy Chain of Associated Forces? On the Potential Use of Force in Niger Against al-Mourabitoun

Robert Chesney Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 12:34 AM

[Update: Several people reached out after I posted last night, drawing attention to the fact that al-Mourabitoun (also spelled al Murabitun) apparently reunited with AQIM after its initial separation from the group. On the other hand, others reached out to point to indications that the particular leader at the center of the current storm—al Sahraoui—may still lead a splinter faction that resisted/resists the return to the AQIM fold.

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