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Nicholas Weaver offered political campaigns a few suggestions for how they can enhance their resilience to a cyberattack.
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If you've noticed any slowness in Lawfare's performance this morning, the reason is another denial of service attacks.
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Monday, August 1st at 12:45pm: Edward Schumacher-Matos, director of the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University, will speak on The Future of...
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Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des...
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This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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American intelligence agencies have reached a consensus of “high confidence” that Russia was in fact behind the hacking of 20,000 DNC emails, according to The New York Times. The hack could have been par...
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In an unusual campaign season punctuated by scandals and high unfavorability numbers for both leading candidates, the latest turn might just be the most shocking.
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Monday, July 25th at 2pm: The Turkish Heritage Foundation will hold a teleconference on Democracy Under Attack in Turkey. Michael Reynolds, Josh...
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Editor's Note: The Middle East and Iraq and Syria in particular have long enjoyed religious diversity, with a range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups, including some of the world’s oldest Christian communi...
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Steve Budiansky is the author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. He joined Ben at the Hoover Book Soiree recently for a live conversation about...
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Cody Poplin posted the public remarks Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released before the pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay resumed. David Hopen continued Lawfare’s...
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania, orchestrated last week’s failed coup. Erdogan has promised to request Gul...
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A review of William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus's Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military (Harvard, 2016).
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More than 9,000 people have been detained in Turkey as President Erdogan continues his crackdown in the aftermath of the failed coup, jailing generals, military officials, governors and police officers. ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, July 18th at 4pm: The Institute of World Politics will host a lecture by Dr. Mackubin Thomas Owens on Naval Warfare: The Strategic Influ...
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The next in our series of soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Wednesday, when Ben interviews Walter Pincus about his new essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the Press ...
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Editor's Note: Is the United Kingdom part of Europe? Perhaps influenced too much by my childhood Risk board, my answer has long been “yes.” But the Brexit vote calls this identity into question, and unce...
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Julian Ku provided us with swift commentary after the Philippines’ sweeping victory in the South China Sea arbitration on Tuesday morning. The next morning, he considered the legal justifications for the...
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In light of the coup attempt in Turkey (still apparently underway at this writing), I want to note a fairly recent book on coup d'etats from a political science perspective - Naunihal Singh's Seizing Pow...
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The next in our series of soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on July 20, when Ben interviews Walter Pincus about his new essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the Press fr...