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Editor’s Note: The latest reporting suggests the United States and Iran are inching closer to a deal on their nuclear program, but will they succeed and will it stick? The answer to this question depends...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on recidivism among former Guantanamo detainees this week. The report details that, while nine additional former detainees returned t...
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Today at 2:00 pm, Lawfare's Herb Lin, along with Richard Bejtlich and Gregory Shannon, will provide testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on "Understanding the Cyber Threat and Implica...
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At 5:00 pm, General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will deliver a keynote address at the Atlantic Council on the future of the fight against the Islamic ...
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At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout...
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I'm excited to announce three new additions to Lawfare's roster of contributing editors---all of whom have written for the site before and will be familiar to our readers.
Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting...
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Editor’s Note: Autonomous weapons systems—or, as it is much more fun to call them, killer robots—are a controversial weapon of war. Critics worry that they make war more likely because they do not put so...
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Lawfare’s own Bobby and Ben trekked to the Hill this Thursday, to testify alongside Gen. Jack Keane before the House Armed Services Committee on the Obama administration’s AUMF. Ben testified that, while...
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I’m very happy to announce the call for proposals and attendees for the 8th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place in Houston on May 14th and 15th this spring. Geoff Corn and I are ...
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On Monday, a New York jury found the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Authority responsible for a series of terror attacks that killed and maimed American citizens in Israel from 2002...
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At 10 am, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, will provide testimony before the House Armed Services Committee today regarding the Obama administration's proposed ...
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ISIS has kidnapped scores of people from Assyrian Christian villages during raids in northeastern Syria. Reuters reports that, according to accounts by Syrian Christian activists, 150 people were kidnapp...
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Published by Oxford University Press (2015)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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At the top of the hour, Brookings Senior Fellows Benjamin Wittes and Michael O'Hanlon will host a live webcast to discuss the president's newly proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force agains...
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Last week, the White House convened a summit on countering violent extremism. The summit took place over three days and featured remarks by Obama administration officials, global leaders, law enforcement...
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Editor's Note: Russian support for separatists in eastern Ukraine and the civil war that has ensued have raised fears of a new Cold War. Indeed, many senior American and European officials have called fo...
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President Obama discussed encryption in an interview he gave last week as part of the White House’s summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection. Susan Landau praised the President’s comments and desc...
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Editor’s Note: The White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that will begin tomorrow is a bold attempt to tackle the “root causes” of terrorism. Yet more than a decade after 9/11, neither...