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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Iraqi President Barham Salih rebuffed President Donald Trump’s proposal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq to monitor Iranian activity in the region, the Washington Post reports. -
Water Wars: Search and Rescue
China’s state-owned Xinhua News has reported the opening of a maritime rescue facility on Yongshu Reef (Fiery Cross Reef), one of the artificial islands it has built in the Spratly Islands region of the ... -
Developing an Objective, Repeatable Scoring System for a Vulnerability Equities Process
The public release of the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP) charter by the White House in late 2017 went a long way toward satisfying the public’s curiosity about the secretive, high-profile and conte... -
The Week That Will Be
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The Stockholm Agreement and Yemen’s Other Wars
Editor’s Note: Yemen's deadly civil war and associated humanitarian catastrophe have dragged on for years. At the end of 2018, however, the country saw what seemed like a bit of good news: successful neg... -
Why the FBI Sent So Many Agents to Roger Stone’s Home
Roger Stone says that more than two dozen FBI agents executed a search warrant at his house. That’s generally consistent with the bureau’s standard operating procedure. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Herb Lin and Amy Zegart on 'Bytes, Bombs, and Spies'
Last week, as part of the Hoover Institution’s Security by the Book series, Jack Goldsmith spoke with Herb Lin and Amy Zegart, co-directors of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program. -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and the leaders of the CIA, NSA, FBI, DIA, and NGIA testified on Tuesday before the Senate intelligence committee on worldwide threats. Matthew Kahn shared the... -
What Does It Mean for the United States to Recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s President?
President Trump’s recent decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president has placed the United States in the middle of a heated struggle over that country’s political future. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The U.S. is officially suspending the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia on Friday following long-standing U.S. allegations that Russia is fielding systems which violate treaty terms, t... -
Guaidó, Not Maduro, Is the De Jure President of Venezuela
The U.S., along with dozens of other states, recently recognized Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Discussion of international recogni... -
Paid Policy Incubator Fellowship For Technologists: A Call for Applications
If 2018 was the year that the D.C.-Silicon Valley divide became abundantly apparent, then 2019 is the year that we can and should do more to bridge that divide. To do so, we need more bridge crossers: ex...
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