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A programming note from Lawfare HQ: for the rest of this week, Lawfare unfortunately won't be almost-live-blogging pre-trial motions litigation in the military commissions case of United States v. Abd al...
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A whopping two weeks of court time earlier had been reserved for pre-trial motions in United States v. Abd al Hadi al Iraqi---but not all of it will be filled with proceedings in the Guantanamo courtroom...
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A few months ago, I wrote a post about a drone that can fire a paintball gun with great accuracy. I concluded, "If this is what's doable by hobbyists today, think about what will be possible five, ten, o...
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“As has become obvious, the Obama administration’s response to the Syrian crisis is an abject failure.”
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There has already been considerable discussion of the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry Report into the 2014 Gaza war. What is not known, however, is whether the International ...
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A little over a week ago, the law firm Sidley Austin LLP submitted its "Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture" to the APA Board of Directors....
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Yesterday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey unveiled the the Pentagon's new 2015 National Military Strategy. Revising the 2011 National Military Strategy, General Dempsey indi...
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I'm very happy to report that the 3rd annual Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict will occur at Oxford next week. As I explained last summer, this event is co-sponsored by the ...
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One of the basic tenets of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) is the equal application of the laws: as Professor Adam Roberts
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I was struck by Charlie Dunlap’s take on the DOD Law of War manual regarding cyber operations, especially on how cyberattacks are carried out.
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The people have spoken, and Lawfare has listened.
As a service to readers, we today have created, under the "Special Features" menu, a standalone page containing the recently released, long anticipate...
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Back on June 15, the White House issued a SAP (statement of administration policy) spelling out objections to H.R. 2596, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY'16. The SAP concludes that the Presiden...