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Strategika, a Hoover Institution online journal edited by Victor Davis Hanson, has published a symposium on whether armed drones are strategically something new, or just an incremental step forward in re...
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The New York Times is reporting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been engaged in secret contacts with the Taliban, which might help to explain Karzai's continued refusal to sign a long-term securit...
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Here are two quite recent papers, both of obvious interest to Lawfare readers. The first, entitled "Drones: the Power to Kill," was penned by former Attorney Alberto Gonzales. Among other things, Gonza...
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Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni...
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In the midst of the hubbub over the PRG and PCLOB reports and the President's speech, one of January's more interesting developments in the FISA reform conversation has largely gone unaddressed (albeit n...
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Today at 10am, there will be a number of hearings that may be of interest to Lawfare readers:
House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Examining Recommendations to Reform FISA Authorities." Link is here. T...
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Your daily dose of Snowdenia: according to Euractiv, European officials were upset over a recently-publicized, Snowden-sourced disclosure, regarding the United States' eavesdropping on negotiators at a 2...
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Moldy tea bags offer the only evidence that any time has passed, when Drew Brammer walks into the apartment one week after its occupants, Hossam Meneai and Jeremy Hodge, were taken from it in the middle ...
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I'll be participating this week in a Naval War College workshop on "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons," and since my presentation topic at the workshop is "area of operations" with respect to auto...
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We just had a brief outage---which is likely connected to the cyberattacks on Lawfare from yesterday, though I have not confirmed that. Our apologies to those who have had trouble accessing the site. Int...
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Courtesy of Aaron Zelin and his indispensable Jihadology blog, here is the latest dust-up in the Al Qaeda family: “On the Relationship of Qā’idat al-Jihād and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām.”
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I met Hasan Dindjer last spring when Ken and I participated in a debate at the Oxford Union on drones. I normally pride myself on being the worst-dressed person in the room, but I was done up in an uncha...
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Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an...
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Although piracy in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates is sharply down in the last year or two, threats remain and an increase in attacks is far from impossible. After all, little has been done to disrup...
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Y'all might have noticed: Lawfare was inaccessible, in an on-again, off-again fashion, for a good part of the day. We asked our hosting service, Blue Water Media, to resolve the problem and report back t...
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Robert Litt, the general counsel to the director of national intelligence, has emerged as one of the administration's point men on response to the Snowden revelations, the defense of the intelligence com...
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After weeks dominated by talk of surveillance reform, Lawfare is slowly returning to its usual eclectic self.
Wells flagged Guantanamo detainee Al Rahabi’s hearing with the Periodic Review Board.
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After months of good news, the mission to wipe out Syria’s chemical arsenal may have run into trouble. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is charged with ensuring disp...
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That's the word from the NSA/CSS. From today's release:
GEN Keith Alexander – Commander, U.S. Cyber Command/Director, NSA/Chief, CSS – is pleased to announce that Richard "Rick" Ledgett is now the 15th ...
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As Ritika relayed yesterday, Navy Vice Admiral Michael S. Rogers has been tapped to be President Obama’s nominee to head up the U.S. Cyber Command and to serve as the next Director of the NSA. Obama’s no...