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On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its markup of the annual defense authorization bill by a vote of 22-4. Shortly after the vote, committee chairman Senator John McCain told reporter...
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Editor’s Note: After 9/11 Ayman al-Zawahiri became the face of Al Qaeda, giving speeches and sending out videos to guide the now-scattered jihadist flock. And of course after Bin Ladin’s death Zawahiri's...
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Today’s White House statement about last night’s spectacular Special Operations raid into Syria states that “This operation was conducted with the full consent of Iraqi authorities and, like our existing...
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Books reviewed in this essay:
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex, by Shane Harris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014)
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Combat operations against ISIS, civil war in Syria, and nuclear negotiations with Iran have crowded out coverage of another important development that factors prominently in America’s Middle East strateg...
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New Israeli justice minister expected to clash with High Court: After an election that seemed to end extremely satisfyingly for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister was only able to cobble together a b...
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I love this idea, floated today in New York Times oped by David D. Laitin and Marc Jahr.
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Editor’s Note: Part of the job of intelligence officials is to give bad news to policymakers. But should officials at times soften their assessments or otherwise pick their battles in order to maintain t...
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From the Washington Post (via the Associated Press):
TORONTO — A former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was convicted of killing a U.S.
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Interested in the ongoing debate over the relationship between LOAC and Human Rights Law in general, or the intersection of those bodies of law in relation to non-criminal detention in particular? You wo...
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In the last two weeks, three new reports have claimed to offer insight into this past summer’s bloody Gaza conflict. Each has been followed by a stream of articles and commentary as pundits rushed to rei...
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Published by Oxford UP (Paperback 2015)
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson