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"Drones: 1, FAA: 0" is the headline of Ryan Calo's article in Forbes.com about the overturning of an FAA fine against a domestic drone operator. Those who remember the FAA's faintly absurd intervention i...
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If you've never been to Austin during South by Southwest, you are truly missing out. SXSW season begins today with the SXSW Interactive and Film Festivals, and I'm happy to report that the Strauss Cente...
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That is the claim put forward, with gusto, by Jonathan Eyal of the Royal United Services Institute in this Guardian article. Eyal correctly notes the importance of the principle of distinction, and more...
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The DNI yesterday released it's latest Guantanamo reengagement report, which show a 29 percent rate of confirmed or suspected reengagement. That's essentially unchanged from the last such report in Septe...
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is quickly becoming a textbook example of low-grade cyber tactics that will likely occur in almost all future conflicts. It has yet to, thankfully, graduate to a full-scale c...
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Chatham House recently held a conference on autonomous military technologies, the focus of which was really the current debate regarding autonomous weapon systems. Kudos to Chatham House for leaning forw...
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As a service to Lawfare readers, we have compiled some other web commentary on the legal aspects of the crisis in Crimea.
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As a follow up to my post of yesterday about cyber in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, here is another thought from Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, the former commander of NATO. In his view NATO should:
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Russian forces have seized control of Crimea and reportedly are digging trenches in the land bridge that connects Crimea with the rest of Ukraine. Is this a flagrant violation of international law regula...
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As the world watches the slow-motion catastrophe that is happening in Crimea and the Ukraine and wondering how it will all play out on the ground, many in the cyber community are asking a different quest...
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Ben Emmerson, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, has released a report in the course of his investi...
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When last we debated the Government’s legal authority to kill an American terrorist overseas, some big-ticket questions had to do with proof: exactly how much evidence would be required before executive ...