On Regulating Means of Warfare

The current academic debate on profiles of legality, under international humanitarian law (IHL), of so-called autonomous weapon systems has mainly focused on the possibility of using these weapons in military operations in accordance with the norms and prohibitions on the methods of conducting hostilities, with particular regard to targeting decisions. At the policy level, as is well known, the question of the need to adopt a treaty to prohibit possibly the development and use of weapon systems