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EVENT 8/19: The Trump admin's lethal, illegal boat strikes began 11 months ago yesterday. 63 attacks, 221 dead so far. RSVP to join us for a virtual panel about how we got here, the deterrence failure, who the victims are, and what needs to happen next.
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Verity Coyle quoted frequently with concerns about autonomous weapons in this article @the-independent.com @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social www.the-independent.com/tech/foundat...
Robot soldiers are being built in America to fight tomorrow’s wars
The co-founder of Foundation Future Industries would build armed robots ‘tomorrow’ if the U.S. military asked, he tells Josh Marcus - and that has human rights experts extremely worried
the-independent.com
📣 Learn more and sign up for Aug 19 event: "A Wretched Anniversary: The Implications of One Year of U.S. Boat Strikes" co-hosted with @wola-org.bsky.social panelists: @adamisacson.com, @seharrison7.bsky.social, and María Teresa Ronderos @elclip.bsky.social www.forumarmstrade.org/events.html#...
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Trump pushes F-35 sale to Turkey, but his own State Department says Erdoğan hasn't met legal requirements
Donald Trump supports selling Turkey the F-35 fighter jet, but a State Department letter to Congress confirms Turkey has not met legal requirements to receive the aircraft.
foxnews.com
💡 We’d like to highlight more of the #ForumCommunity’s experts and their impactful work!
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Made in India: The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel - Amnesty International
This report builds upon publicly available shipment-level trade data to highlight the scope and magnitude of India’s material support for the Israeli defence sector and international crimes committed ...
amnesty.org
Our next "The Week in Arms Trade Publications" is coming tomorrow. Are you on the list to receive it? If not, here's your link to get on the list www.forumarmstrade.org/get-on-the-l... Latest in writings, events, resources and more! (Check out archives at www.forumarmstrade.org/newsletter.h...)
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Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain A visual project from Airwars and @ainowinstitute.bsky.social breaks down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war - and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies ai-killchain.airwars.org
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
ai-killchain.airwars.org
🌍 We met with Maria Pia Devoto from APP Argentina to discuss the role of gender in effective implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty. She also delved into the main challenges to disarmament and arms control in Latin America. Watch the full interview at the link below🔗 youtu.be/y8tvztS316U
Ask the Arms Experts: Gender and the Arms Trade
YouTube video by Forum on the Arms Trade
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"The premeditated killing of individuals aboard civilian vessels on the high seas fits clearly within the U.S. statutes governing murder." — from "Killing Spree," WOLA's comprehensive new report on the lethal, illegal boat strikes campaign. Read it here: www.wola.org/analysis/kil...
Big read: No civilians have been killed in a US “boat strike” over the past month—since the Venezuela earthquakes—in the Caribbean or Eastern Pacific. This new WOLA report on the strikes overwhelmingly makes the case that they should never, ever resume.
Killing Spree: Extrajudicial executions in the U.S. boat strikes campaign - WOLA
WOLA's new report, "Killing Spree," examines the U.S. military's extrajudicial boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have killed 221 people since Sept. 2025.
wola.org
The Monroe Doctrine Was Never a Blank Check for Presidential War www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Monroe Doctrine Was Never a Blank Check for Presidential War
Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” in Latin America inverts a policy that, properly understood, abided by and reinforced constraints on unilateral presidential force.
lawfaremedia.org
As debate continues to be had on US-Israeli defense cooperation and further entanglement, a reminder of this report from June that highlights concerns remain about Israeli weapons use and civilian harm - Cost of War project costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/Quadco...
Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government "Quadcopter" Use in Gaza
This report illustrates that the manner in which the Israeli military uses small tactical drones in Gaza as instruments of “precision warfare” has not reduced civilian harm but has intensified it. Dr....
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
📣 Las solicitudes para el Programa Expertos y Expertas Emergentes en Español y Portugués (2026-2027) deben presentarse antes del 24 de julio: www.forumarmstrade.org/emergentes_f...
Preguntas Frecuentes - Programa Expertos y Expertas Emergentes en Español
Esta página de preguntas frecuentes está destinada principalmente a personas que están considerando unirse al programa de expertos y expertas emergentes en español del Foro sobre Comercio de Armas (F...
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📣 Emerging Expert Program applications close this Friday, July 24. This program is open to individuals who have expressed an interest in addressing the humanitarian, economic and other implications of arms transfers, security assistance, and weapons use. www.forumarmstrade.org/emerging_faq...
Emerging Experts FAQ
Forum on the Arms Trade Emerging Expert program FAQ (English-language program)
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1/ July 15-16, another $2.5b + in potential arms sales notified to Congress #FMS * #SaudiArabia $1.96 billion for 20,000 advanced precision kill munitions * #Kuwait $484 million for C-17 sustainment * #Greece $80.1 million for 350 Switchblade loitering munitions www.state.gov/arms-sales-c...
Arms Sales: Congressional Notifications - United States Department of State
An archive of Foreign Military Sales cases formally notified to Congress prior to February 26, 2026, is available at the website of the U.S. Department of War’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, at...
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Pentagon proposes new secrecy power to withhold unclassified records from public-access laws
The legislative proposal would allow the defense secretary to withhold "controlled unclassified information," potentially curbing public access to a wide range of defense records.
cbsnews.com
🚨 To kick off our new series, highlighting humanitarian disarmament work in conflict-affected areas, we spoke with campaigners at Campaña Colombiana Contra Minas. Check out our interview with them to hear their perspectives on the impact of landmines in Colombia. 🇨🇴#humanitariandisarmament
Conflict-linked marine pollution is spiking in the Persian Gulf, new #remotesensing research finds. An increase of 4x more spills from targeted oil facilities and ships, leaks and dumps, all risking protected areas, desal plants and marine life. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Terrific oped from two of our advisory board members, Jenny Greenburg + Bill Hartung responsiblestatecraft.org/american-mil... “Instead of vague debates abt outmoded concepts like “peace through strength,” we need a national conversation about what would actually make America and the world safer”
Voters: The military makes us feel safe but not sure it's worth a trillion
Americans don't see massive Pentagon spending as the key to ensuring their security, according to new polls
responsiblestatecraft.org
‘You don’t grow your arms industry because you are expecting a generation of peace,’ #SIPRI senior researcher, Dr. Alexander Blanchard comments for @nytimes.com on ballooning European #defence spending in the #AI era. Read more ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b... #EU #Ukraine #Drones
Inside the Secret Factory That Supplies Ukraine’s War Drones
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