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Airstrikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities: Attacks in Somalia and Questions About the Current Shape of the Policy
Just this morning, I was thinking that things have been rather quiet with respect to media coverage of U.S. operations against AQ and AQ affiliates in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Well... -
U.S. Military Detention in Iraq: Just How Many ISIS Detainees So Far?
Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um... -
2/24 Session: The “Bird Noises and Vibrations” Edition
Judge Pohl begins with the usual business. We are now going on day four with no Bin ‘Attash. As for changes to the legal staff, James Connell, counsel for al-Baluchi, notes the absence of their linguist ... -
2/23 Session: The "Touhy" Edition
We pick up the February 23 session in the afternoon, with Col. Pohl presiding. (Transcripts from the morning session were not released.) Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was absent in the morning session, has... -
The Expeditionary Targeting Force in Iraq: Putting the Short-Term Military Detention Model to the Test
It is commonly said that the Obama administration rejects the use of military detention, and understandably so. Many factors support that characterization, after all: no new detainees have been brought ... -
ODNI Releases Second Tranche of Abbottabad Documents
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence yesterday released a second set of documents recovered during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The trance includes 113 n... -
A Report Card on the Stimson Report Card
Last week, the Stimson Center released its “Report Card on The Recommendations of The Stimson Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy.” The report card unsurprisingly earned headlines like “Obama’s Drone Policy ... -
Grading the Obama Administration's Progress on Drone Policy
In his May 2013 speech at National Defense University, President Obama called for new ways to think about drones and the United States’ policy on using these systems in counterterrorism operations. Now, ... -
WDNT? What Does Norway Think, Part II?
A couple of weeks ago, I thought it worth calling to reader's attention the threat assessment done by the Norwegian Police Security Service (more or less Norway's MI-5). Today, we have news from the Nor... -
2/22 Session: Transcript, Touching, and Technology Woes
Pre-trial sessions resumed this week in the military commission trial of five Guantanamo detainees, who allegedly orchestrated the September 11th attacks. Only three of the five accused were present Mond... -
Increasing Cyber Dependency?
Today's Washington Post contains an article by David Ignatius that reports on the DoD's "third offset" strategy. -
Obama Administration Plan to Close Guantanamo
This morning, the Department of Defense formally submitted the Obama administration's plan for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Congress. The plan is available here.
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