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Let's start this week's recap with posts related to targeting. Ashley talked about the role of consent in targeting non-Al Qaeda members in Yemen in the wake of new reports that the DOD might provide mor...
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Editor’s Note: Yemen is among the most vexing allies the United States has in the struggle against terrorism. Like Pakistan, the government in Sana’a is both a key partner and part of the problem. On the...
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Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution has co-authored Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century with Jim Steinberg, Dean of Syracuse’s Maxwell School. Th...
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As the week began, Ben noted that the last few weeks have been fairly kind to NSA. Ben hypothesized that the story may finally be blowing over.
Well, maybe not quite over. Jack critiqued a new DNI direc...
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Let’s begin with Pakistan today. The New York Times takes a closer look at Islamabad’s Red Mosque, where soldiers and Islamist students fought a pitched battle in 2007 and where a new library named for O...
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions seem to hit the sweet spot for policymakers when considering options for U.S. foreign intervention: unlike military force, sanctions don’t risk American lives and don’t feed the ...
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Let's begin with the White House’s recent release of its highly anticipated Big Data report: Ben noted the release of the report, and Paul gave us some of his reactions.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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Editor’s Note: Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in December 2010, commentators have regularly described relations between Washington and Riyadh as strained at best and near collapse at worst. The po...
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This week, let's start with the courts. Ben flagged the Second Circuit’s decision ordering that the government to release the legal memos that justify the targeted killing of Anwar Al Awlaki.
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Published by Scribner (2013)
Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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Editor’s Note: The recent events in Ukraine have dredged up memories of an era of great-power competition and territorial conquest driven by imperialistic ambitions that many observers believed had been ...
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Below is the text of a Report/public comment on the 702 program submitted by the NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), dated April 16, 2014. I...
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Coming off of the heartbleed scare, attention this week still focused on internet vulnerabilities.
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I learned a lot about Lawfare---and about myself---yesterday from Conor Friedersdorf's rather bitter critique of my post on the decision to award the Pulitzer public service award to the Guardian and the...
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