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Federal Employees Please Take Note: You can now support Lawfare through the Combined Federal Campaign! Wells announced this week that federal employees can help grow Lawfare through the ongoing CFC. Plea...
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The Washington Post reports that President Obama is considering leaving a standing U.S. force of 5,000 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016. If implemented, that decision would represent a dramatic departur...
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General John F. Campbell, Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Military Operations in Afghanistan.
You can watch the hearing here.
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Editor’s Note: The United Nations can play an important role in counterterrorism, but it often fails to deliver. Much of the UN’s effort is channeled through the 1267 Committee, which designates terroris...
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Ben announced Wells’s forthcoming departure from Lawfare and invites you to come work for the team, especially if you are "someone who everyone enjoys and who utterly lacks Washington pomposity."
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The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, and Director of the NSA Adm. Michael Rogers on "U.S. Cyb...
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Editor’s Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in...
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With Chinese President Xi Jinping in town, it’s been a big week for all things cyber and U.S.-China relations.
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USCYBERCOM will host the third annual COCOM-Interagency Cyber Law Conference from October 20-22, 2015. For more information, see the annoucement below:
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As the Arab Spring went sour, country after country in the Middle East went from protest and nascent democracy to strife and even civil war. Yet one part of the region seemed relatively untouched: the Pa...
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With all of the recent concern over the Obama administration’s attempts to train and equip Syrian rebels Jack and Wells both attempted to answer the question of how Article II of the Constitution could a...
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
Doubleday (2015)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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Editor’s Note: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brutal leader of the world’s most brutal terrorist group, is an enigma to many Westerners. Unlike Osama bin Laden, Baghdadi does not grant long interviews to West...
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Reflecting on the 14th anniversary of 9/11, Carrie Cordero urged professionals engaged in the national security sphere to read the original 9/11 Commission report.
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
By Scott Shane
Published by Tim Duggan Books (2015)
Nearly three years ago, testifying before a congressional hearing, I observed t...
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