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The Impact of RMA on Conventional Deterrence: A Theoretical Analysis
Manjeet S. Pardesi. Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore, December 2005 (.pdf file).

Will the New Biology Lead to New Weapons?
Mark Wheelis. Arms Control Today, July/August 2004.

Inching Away from Armageddon: Destoying the U.S. Chemical Weapons Stockpile
Claudine McCarthy and Julie Fischer. Stimson Center, April 2004 (.pdf file).

Beyond Preceision: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in Minimizing Collateral Casualties
Lt. Col. Dwight A. Roblyer. ACDIS Occasional Paper, April 2004 (.pdf file).

War, Profits, and the Vacuum of Law: Privatized Military Firms and International Law
P.W. Singer. Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2004. Posted on the Brookings Institution website (.pdf file).

The Revolution in Military Affairs and War Powers
Lukasz Kamienski. Strategic Insights, September 2003. Posted on the Center for Contemporary Conflict website.

The Moral Limits of Strategic Attack
Michael A. Carlino. Parameters, Spring 2002.

Modern War, Modern Law, and the Army Doctrine: Are We in Step for the 21st Century?
Richard J. Butler. Parameters, Spring 2002.

Strengthening the Inhumane Weapons Convention: Second Review Conference of the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention
Richard Lloyd. Policy Paper on Qualitative Arms Control, No. 2. International Security Information Service, December 2001.

Biotechnology and the Future of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Fact Sheet. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, November 2001.

A 'Crushing' Victory: Fuel-Air Explosives and Grozny 2000
Lester W. Grau and Timothy Smith. Marine Corps Gazette, August 2000. Posted on the Foreign Military Studies Office Publications website.

Kosovo Targeting-- A Bureaucratic and Legal Nightmare: The Implications for US/Austrailian Interoperability
Kathryn Cochrane. Paper Number 3. Aerospace Center, June 2001.

Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives
Kenneth R. Rizer. Aerospace Chronicles, 1 May 2001.

Information Warfare and the New Challenges to Waging Just War
Matthew Hirschland. Proceedings: Political Research Online, 7 March 2001.

The Ethics of Computer Network Attack
William J. Bayles. Parameters (Spring 2001).

The Revolution of Military Affairs and the Future of Arms Control and Verification
Joel Sokolsky. International Security Bureau. Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, February 2001.

A Proposal for an International Convention on Cyber Crime and Terrorism
Abraham Sofaer, Seymour Goodman, et. al. August 2000.

Resolving the Legal Issues Concerning Information Warfare and International Law: The Reach of the Existing Framework, and the Creation of a New Paradigm
Michael J. Robbat. Journal of Science & Technology Law, Spring 2000.

New Forms of War and Arms Control in the Middle East (pdf download)
Anthony Cordesman. Washington, DC: CSIS Strategic Assessments, February 2000.

Arms Control, Technology, and the Revolution in Military Affairs (pdf download)
Anthony Cordesman. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2000.

The Ethics of Information Warfare and Statecraft
Dan Kuehl. Infowar.com.

Technology: Recomplicating the Moral Life for the Nation's Defenders
Charles Dunlap, Jr. Parameters (Autumn 1999).

Information Operations Violates Protocol I
William Church. Infowar.com, 23 June 1999.

Legal Constraints on Information Warfare
Mark Russell Shulman. Occasional Paper #7. Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, March 1999.

The Principle of Discrimination in 21st Century Warfare
Michael Schmitt. Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (Volume 2), 1999

Arms Control, Export Regimes, and Multilateral Cooperation
Lynn Davis. From The The Changing Role of Information in Warfare. Santa Monica: Rand, 1999.

The Diplomatic Consequences of the Coming RMA
Rachel Bronson and Daniel Goure. Foreign Service Journal (September 1998).

Information War and International Law
Lawrence T. Greenberg, et al. National Defense University Press, April 1998.

Information Warfare: Implications for Arms Control
Dr. Andrew Rathmell. Bulletin of Arms Control (April 1998).

Conflict and the Computer: Information Warfare and Related Ethical Issues
Sam Nitzberg. Paper presented at the 21st National Systems Security Conference, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA, 5-8 Feb 1998.

Conflict and the Computer: Information Warfare and Related Ethical Issues
Sam Nitzberg. National Information Systems Security Conference: Crystal City, VA 1998.

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