Weapons that cannot be directed at a specific military objective or whose effects cannot be limited as required by IHL. Includes cluster munitions, antipersonnel mines, and certain incendiary and explosive weapons used in populated areas.
The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli …
On September 30, 2025, the Pentagon awarded an indefinite delivery/quantity contract with a ceiling value of $829.1 million to Tomer, an …
The contract was awarded without public competition under a 'public interest' exception to federal contracting law, bypassing normal …
The Trump administration reversed decades of bipartisan progress toward eliminating antipersonnel landmines by authorizing their global use and simultaneously dismantling the US humanitarian demining …
Defense Secretary Hegseth signed a memo on December 2, 2025, reversing the Biden-era policy that prohibited US use of antipersonnel …
The same memo rescinded the US Humanitarian Mine Program, a decades-long government initiative that had provided over $5 billion in …