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Editor’s Note: Fears about nuclear weapons and concerns about East Asia typically reside in separate worlds. But one risk of a rising China that is usually ignored is how it affects the risk of nuclear w...
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Below you will find a compilation of public statements and reactions to President Obama’s draft ISIL-specific AUMF. In short: Democrats are concerned there aren't enough limits, and Republicans can’t un...
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Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations received an "Update on Detainee Transfers from GTMO."
You can read the testimony of the Department of De...
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Some follow-ups to my earlier post on the administration’s ISIL-specific AUMF:
Marty Lederman has a good analysis of the substance of the draft AUMF that is consonant with my analysis. Marty charitably...
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Jack ends his excellent and comprehensive post this morning, a post which I will not try to summarize, with the following statement:
I just don’t get the calculation. It seems that the President could h...
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Before I get to analysis and criticism, let me give the Obama administration credit for proposing a draft AUMF yesterday. The administration’s many promises about working with Congress to craft an AUMF ...
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Editor's Note: As we scale up Lawfare's coverage of security issues in hot-button regions, we thought we would start rounding up Lawfare-relevant items from the Middle East and North Africa. This feature...
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Here are the key policy judgments in the President's AUMF proposal:
"The President is authorized . . . to use the Armed Forces of the United States as the President determines to be necessary and approp...
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This morning, the White House released a proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to Congress. You can find the AUMF transmittal letter and th...
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Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck and a group of scholars have posted a letter to President Obama asking him to include in his AUMF proposal not merely a sunset for the new ISIS AUMF but one for the u...
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It is with great reluctance that I wade into Gabor and Steve’s debate about how to close the U.S.
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The Palestinian turn to the International Criminal Court has Israel’s supporters fretting over potential prosecutions and international delegitimization.