Efthimia (Mariefaye) Bechrakis, Esq.

On March 26, 2026, a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from branding Anthropic a “supply chain risk.” The ruling does more than grant an early legal victory for Anthropic. It exposes a deeper structural shift in how the boundaries of military power are being negotiated at a moment when contemporary warfare is increasingly mediated by Artificial intelligence.  For International Criminal Law (ICL), this shift raises a more fundamental question: who bears responsibility when the conditions under which force is exercised are shaped, not on the battlefield, but upstream, through privately designed systems?