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The British Royal United Services Institute has issued a report entitled "Hitting the Target? How New Capabilities are Shaping International Intervention." Here's how the organization describes the proje...
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This is sure to satisfy your targeted-killing jonesing for the week: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a website launched by a company called Pitch Interactive, documents---quite stunningly in visual terms, if ...
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The House Judiciary Committee has released a draft cyber bill that would modify the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The bill is on a fast track as the House hopes to have a week of "cyber" legislation in ...
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Ritika linked yesterday to a new Gallup poll on public attitudes towards drone strikes. The results are not surprising, but they are interesting. Americans largely support drone strike against foreign te...
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Stewart Baker points to a provision in Congress’s continuing resolution that is the first serious attempt I have seen to punish (as opposed to rail against) China for its cybersecurity practices. Sect...
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James Lewis had an op-ed yesterday in the WP about “Five Myths About Chinese Hackers.” The fifth myth:
5. America spies on China, too, so what can we complain about?
Chinese officials portray their cou...
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Over at the graphical Drawnward blog, Caitlin Fitz Gerald has figured out an interesting way of illustrating our increasingly polarized attitudes over drones. She typed "drones are" into Google and grabb...
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As Ben and Gregory McNeal posted earlier, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, issued this statement on March 14 after a three-day visit to Pakistan, ...
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Mary Dudziak has a truly bizarre oped in the New York Times today taking on the Obama administration's drone wars on, let's just say, a new basis: that President Nixon once secretly bombed Cambodia.
I'm...
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Following up on Wells’ post, I increasingly think that the shift in drone authorities from CIA to DOD first reported by Dan Klaidman might not amount to much in substance, and that any proposed changes ...
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Lawfarers are by now steeped in this news: the White House apparently intends to diminish the CIA's responsibility for drone strikes, and to transfer that responsibility, over time, to the Department of ...
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Matt Waxman has just published a new cyber paper that’s well worth reading. The piece picks up on an earlier article of Matt’s that explored when states might treat cyber-attacks as "force" or "armed att...