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As Wells notes, the Obama administration is contemplating air strikes in Iraq to protect threatened religious minorities there.
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The New York Times reports:
WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq...
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Over on CNN’s Global Public Square, I’ve written about recent events in Libya – including the evacuation of American and many foreign diplomats – and what they mean for the Responsibility to Protect.
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Editor’s Note: The chaos in Iraq has intensified since U.S. forces withdrew at the end of 2011, leading many to question the wisdom of that decision. Although the clock cannot be rolled back—and some see...
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The podcast DecodeDC has a new episode out on the question of the future of the AUMF. It's largely a pair of interviews with Jennifer Daskal and me. A good introduction to the subject, in my opinion.
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Laurie Blank (Emory University Law School professor, director of its law of armed conflict clinic and, of course, well known to many Lawfare readers as a prominent scholar of LOAC) has an opinion column ...
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Asser Press has just published a book entitled, Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Bodies (Derek Jinks, Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto & Solon Solomon, eds.).
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A month ago, we wrote about an effort by several plaintiff's lawyers, representing terrorist victims, to seize the Iran domain name (.IR). Turns out there was even more to it than we were aware of at th...
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The Chinese government and its proxies have recently ratcheted up harassment of U.S. IT firms doing business in China. In the last week, China has deployed its antitrust laws against Qualcomm and Micros...
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A little postscript to my note about Friday’s vote in the House, regarding military operations in Iraq: this quite critical statement, which House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon r...
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Over at Just Security, Steve Vladeck objects to the piece Jack, Bobby, Matt and I wrote over the weekend on Lisa Monaco's AUMF comments at the Aspen Security Forum. He argues that we are over-reading her...
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Nowadays figuring out what sort of post-2001 AUMF authority the White House wants is a bit of a tea leaf-reading exercise. Potentially relevant to it are the events of last Friday concerning the 2002 AUM...