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I am writing both to update readers on the attacks on Lawfare that took place this week and to make a frank fundraising appeal for reader help in addressing them.
As readers know, we have been hit since...
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In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice." There are various ways of ren...
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Over the past few weeks, several members of congressional intelligence committees have intimated that Edward Snowden might have bee...
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Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te...
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As the week began, we found ourselves in the middle of one of our own stories as we persevered through a new round of cyberattacks.
Nevertheless Lawfare continued apace. Ben brought us the next installm...
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Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni...
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I'll be participating this week in a Naval War College workshop on "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons," and since my presentation topic at the workshop is "area of operations" with respect to auto...
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Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an...
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Although piracy in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates is sharply down in the last year or two, threats remain and an increase in attacks is far from impossible. After all, little has been done to disrup...
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After weeks dominated by talk of surveillance reform, Lawfare is slowly returning to its usual eclectic self.
Wells flagged Guantanamo detainee Al Rahabi’s hearing with the Periodic Review Board.
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Directors from five intelligence agencies appeared yesterday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Although nothing earth-shattering was revealed at the public hearing, there were some tes...
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I don't normally write a post noting departures from our masthead. Our student contributors come and go with the turn of the seasons. They write for a while and then take clerkships, go to law firms, or ...
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Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev...
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As the week started, Lawfare continued with its coverage of last Friday’s presidential speech on surveillance reform. John wanted a strong condemnation of Edward Snowden, and was disappointed that the Pr...
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Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin...
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Over at the New Republic, Sean Wilentz has this fascinating long piece about the ideologies of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Glenn Greenwald.
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The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r...
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This week Lawfare focused on the debate over surveillance reform.
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Below is the video of the discussion that took place today at Brookings on the President's NSA speech.
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The Brookings Institution will host---and Ben will speak at---a panel event tomorrow afternoon following President Obama's speech on NSA reform and the Review Group Report. We will embed the event video,...