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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2021
This section of the Review provides a summary of new ICRC-affiliated reports relating to this issue's theme of “Digital Technologies and War”, including the executive summaries of three such reports. For access to the full reports, please follow the links provided.
1 See, in particular, ICRC, International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, Geneva, 2015, pp. 39–44. The restrictions imposed by IHL do not legitimize the use of force in cyberspace, which remains governed by the United Nations Charter.
2 The terms “cyber attacks” and “cyber operations” are used throughout the report in a technical (mainstream or colloquial) sense and not as they may be understood under IHL, unless specifically stated.
3 Under IHL, “attack” has a specific meaning which would not encompass all cyber operations that are referred to as cyber attacks in a colloquial sense.
4 See ICRC, above note 1, p. 41.
5 This executive summary © SIPRI 2020, reproduced with permission.