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Following the tremendous success of last year’s Triple Entente Beer Summit, the gang is back for more.
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"And yes, when I am President of the United States, if there is some place in this country where radical jihadists are planning to attack the United States, we will go after them wherever they are, and i...
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Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy exp...
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This Intelligence Studies Essay assesses open source research to determine the relative effectiveness of two alternative strategies for directing lethal attacks against terrorist groups: leadership decap...
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Editor's Note: Canada is a close American ally, and in both war and peace, the two countries seem bound at the hip. Canada, however, has its own distinct politics, interests, and capabilities, and these ...
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A busy day with a nice collection of stories (coincidentally all from the Washington Post this time around):
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Last week at The Brookings Institution, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participated in a discussion with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Newsweek’s Dahlia Lithwick about his n...
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In likely the most creative (and ridiculous) terrorist plot we’ve seen here at Lawfare, an Australian man inspired by the Islamic State was arrested for planning to pack a live kangaroo full of explosive...
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Lawfare readers may be interested in a recent talk I gave at Usenix's Enigma Conference, "The Golden Age of Bulk Surveillance."
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Tamara considers the Arab Spring five years later. What have we learned about the future of peace and stability in the region? Shane looks into who that mysterious fourth American hostage freed by Iran w...
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Yesterday, Taiwan’s outgoing president Ma Ying-jeou made a brief, but controversial visit to Itu Aba — also known as Taiping Island — in the South China Sea.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent much of this week in Laos, Cambodia, and China in an effort to pressure Beijing to change course in the South China Sea. Returning to Washington on Wednesday, Sec...
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Not so very long ago, during Lebanon’s civil war, the way a person said the Arabic word for tomato was enough to get him or her killed. In at least one instance, Phalangists (Lebanese C...
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The Guantanamo Bay diaspora, on a per capita basis, may be the most widespread in the world. Indeed, as the Obama administration makes a final push towards emptying the detention facility, the number of ...
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Reuters reports that Syrian opposition forces will not attend the Geneva peace meeting unless the United Nations responds to their demands to halt attacks on civilian areas. Although invitations for the ...
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Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual event in which I am — rather proudly — personally invested. Data Privacy Day began with a conversation at my dinner table eight years ago, when Leonardo Cervera Navas...
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During highly-secret negotiations in 2010, Israel offered Syria a land-for-peace proposal. Under the terms, Israel agreed to return the Golan Heights in exchange for specific security guarantees, includi...
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In preparation for the upcoming peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups, set to begin Friday, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria issued formal invitations for the discussi...
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If there really is another crypto war in Washington, then this week’s podcast features several war correspondents and at least one victim of PTSD.