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Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Thursday, The U.N. General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the New York Times reports. The vote, which included 35 abstentio... -
Private-Sector Attribution of Cyber Attacks: A Growing Concern for the U.S. Government?
Attribution of cyber incidents is a reoccurring concern. Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains a contentious issue, and on Tuesday, the White House publicly linked North Kore... -
The Strange WannaCry Attribution
I’ve been trying to figure out why the U.S. government thought it was useful to attribute the “WannaCry” attack to North Korea. WannaCry was a global ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of c... -
Summary: D.C. District Court Rejects Government Motion for a Stay in Transgender Servicemember Litigation
On Dec. 11, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia denied a government motion in Doe v. Trump that requested a partial stay of an Oct. 30 injunction that requ... -
Christmas in the Trenches 2017
As is my annual custom, this song is both thanks to all those who serve our country and a reminder of why they serve—to "secure the blessings of liberty." My best wishes to all Lawfare readers for a war... -
The National Security Strategy and the Middle East, Trump's Jerusalem Mess, and Riyadh's Nuclear Plans
What the National Security Strategy Means for U.S. Policy in the Middle East -
The Lawfare Podcast: C. Christine Fair on Bangladeshi Terrorism
Last week, a Bangladeshi man set off a pipe bomb in the New York subway in an attempted terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State. C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Peace and... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The U.N. General Assembly will hold an emergency session on Thursday to vote on a draft resolution calling for the U.S. to revoke its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Reuters reported. The U... -
Using Threat Modeling to Secure America
Getting security right means not only knowing what your threats are but also determining their likelihood and relative risk. Such threat modeling requires systematically enumerating your threats, evaluat... -
The White House's Ambiguous Jerusalem Policy
Last week, I wrote for Lawfare's feed at Foreign Policy about the ambiguity in the president's Dec. 6 announcement that the United States will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The piece begi... -
Why China Would Want to Offer Extended Deterrence to North Korea
This post is the third of three essays on addressing the crisis with North Korea. Read parts one and two. -
Congress’ Impeachment Power and the Case of Presidential Obstruction
Josh Blackman, in three successive postings for Lawfare, and co-commentators David Rivkin and Lee Casey in a separate piece for the Wall Street Journal, have been developing the case that a president fir...
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