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This morning, my Brookings colleagues Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel held an excellent event with General Stanley McChrystal on the evolution of JSOC and his new book, My Share of the Task.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting at a dinner next to Stephen Krasner, a Stanford political scientist who used to head the State Department's policy planning staff.
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Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old U.S.-born citizen of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested in September 2011 for plotting to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol Building with remote-controlled model airplanes c...
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In this special episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Military Commission Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins discusses his decision to recommend dropping conspiracy charges against Khalid Sheikh M...
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This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers.
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On Monday, October 29, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Clapper v. Amnesty International, which poses the question whether a group of human rights organizations, lawyers, activists, and journalis...
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This is the third in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around Washington D.C. who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security legal questions near and dear to the hearts of...
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Here's the video of all four rounds of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown. It's a crude cut, and I had to edit it very quickly. But anyone who doubts that the era of consumer drones---and consumer cyber-securit...
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Last month, I linked to an essay over at Foreign Policy by the mysterious Twitter phenom known as @drunkenpredator.
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This is the second in a series of interviews I am doing with scholars around town who have non-legal expertise that bears on the national security law issues Lawfare readers care about.
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This is the first in a series of posts I will be doing over the comings weeks based on a set of interviews I am conducting with people who have expertise of interest to Lawfare readers--but from whom we ...
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Professor Kent Roach, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has written a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, which came ou...
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Ken posted as a Reading sometime back Ashley Deek's new article in the Virginia Journal of International Law, ‘Unwilling or Unable’: Toward an Normative Framework for Extra-Territorial Self-Defense.
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The following is the speech I gave at the MILOPS conference in Singapore on Monday.
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This is the first of three speeches I recorded in Singapore at the Pacific Command's Military Operations and Law Conference. I don't normally post podcasts in rapid succession, but I will be releasing th...
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We don't review our own books here on Lawfare--not even if we happen to be Lawfare's book review editor. But I sat down the other day with Ken Anderson to discuss his wonderful new book, Living With the ...
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Ken already wrote up Jen Daskal’s new article, “The Geography of the Battlefield: A Framework for Detention and Targeting Outside of the ‘Hot’ Conflict Zone,” so I won’t summarize it again here. It’s a p...
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Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has a new book out, entitled Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War. The book, which is very brief--more of a long essay, really--is an impas...
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the President of Estonia, a small nation (population about 1.3 million) and also one of the most wired and digitally advanced nations in the world. Ilves was President of Estonia...
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In this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Bobby Chesney sits down with Brigadier General Rich Gross, the Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for a detailed discussion of the nature ...