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Last Friday at the stroke of midnight, India and Bangladesh exchanged 50,000 people and more than 160 pockets of land as part of a major land boundary agreement (LBA) approved by the Indian parliament in...
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Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...
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This week’s Lawfare Podcast features interviews from the Aspen Security Forum with—among others—FBI Director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers.
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It has been quite common in the last decade, when difficult legal questions were raised about individual rights and judicial review—the rights, for example, of noncitizen military detainees at Guantanamo...
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I posted a first batch last week. Here are the rest of the videos from this year's Aspen Security Forum.
A Look Into SOCOM
Joseph Votel, Commander, US Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherin...
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Guantanamo Diary
By Mohamedou Ould Slahi (edited by Larry Siems)
Published by Hatchette Book Group (2015)
Reviewed by Zoe Bedell
It's rare that quotes on the back of a book tell you anything genuinel...
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions are increasingly America’s foreign policy instrument of first resort, promising success without the bloodshed that comes with military force. Iran’s willingness to cut a deal ove...
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
By Michael Oren
RandomHouse (2015)
Reviewed by Yishai Schwartz
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If, like me, you were not invited to this year's Aspen Security Forum, you're probably thinking right now, "Gee, I wish someone would post all the videos of the great events I'm not getting to attend."
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Introduction
“The law of war is of fundamental importance to the Armed Forces of the United States.”
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This episode features part one of an interview with Don Rassler based on his article “Situating the Emergence of the Islamic State of Khorasan,” for the CTC Sentinel. This part of the conversation covers...
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Over at Just Security, Marshall Erwin has an excellent article entitled, "The FBI’s Problem Isn’t 'Going Dark.' Its Problem is Going Slowly." I'm not sure how much of Erwin's argument I agree with—defini...
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Tuesday, July 21st at 9 am: The Center for a New American Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law will ...
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Editor's Note: Last week we looked at how the lack of attention to governance has hindered effective U.S. security sector assistance. This week Gordon Adams of American University and Richard Sokolsky of...
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Dominating the news, and Lawfare's coverage: Iran. Four deadlines and 18 days of final discussions later, the United States reached a historic accord with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear capabilities in r...
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Editor's Note: We’re breaking new ground here at the Foreign Policy Essay—a two-part series. So many of the problems identified in past Foreign Policy Essays and for Lawfare in general revolve directly o...
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Lawfare kicked off the week with a post from FBI Director James Comey on encryption and “going dark,” following up on his conversation with Ben on the topic last week. “My job,” Director Comey wrote, “is...