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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to review the Report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. The scheduled witnesses are the members of the Revi...
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Afghanistan: A Distant War Robert Nickelsberg; Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson; Introduction by Ahmad Nader Nadery Prestel U
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The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov...
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Although this week’s most noteworthy leaks came out of the New Jersey Governor’s office, Lawfare is still analyzing the ripples of earlier federal disclosures.
Raffaela pointed us to two statements out ...
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Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not...
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Reviewing the Reviewers: The President's Review Group report continues to inspire debate. Carrie Cordero gave a thoughtful three-part analysis of the Report: Part I looked at the Review Group's process ...
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The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’...
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Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), which operates under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), is both an important and misunderstood terrorist group. LeT grabbed world attention in 2008, when its operatives attacked hotel...
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Continuing coverage of the President's Review Group Report: Ben posted a detailed two-part (so far) analysis in which he separates "the good from the bad, and both from the unimportant" in the Review Gro...
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Published by W.W. Norton (2014)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S.
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Who's Ringo? This week District Court Judge Richard Leon’s strong rebuke of bulk telephony metadata collection in Klayman v. Obama stole the headlines---from dismissing Smith v. Maryland as excessively a...
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I would normally leave a very slimy blog post like this one uncommented upon. But Rick Perlstein, the author of this particular post on The Nation's web site, is a very distinguished author of some very ...
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Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials!
We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses...
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That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...
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They got remarkable access both to people and to facilities
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China’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea on November 23 confounded many observers, including veteran China-watchers. The move alarmed China’s neighbors and w...
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Let's start with Guantanamo: This year's NDAA has taken its final form, and Raffaela posted an initial summary of the provisions germane to detention. Ben linked us to the full text of the bill once it c...