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Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te...
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Released today: this quite significant order, containing the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security---or the "No-Fly List Case" [h/t Wired]...
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That is the title of this press release by Senator Jeff Merkley, announcing a resolution “calling for Congress to have a role in approving any further United States military involvement in Afghanistan af...
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Strategika, a Hoover Institution online journal edited by Victor Davis Hanson, has published a symposium on whether armed drones are strategically something new, or just an incremental step forward in re...
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Here are two quite recent papers, both of obvious interest to Lawfare readers. The first, entitled "Drones: the Power to Kill," was penned by former Attorney Alberto Gonzales. Among other things, Gonza...
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Moldy tea bags offer the only evidence that any time has passed, when Drew Brammer walks into the apartment one week after its occupants, Hossam Meneai and Jeremy Hodge, were taken from it in the middle ...
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I'll be participating this week in a Naval War College workshop on "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons," and since my presentation topic at the workshop is "area of operations" with respect to auto...
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Courtesy of Aaron Zelin and his indispensable Jihadology blog, here is the latest dust-up in the Al Qaeda family: “On the Relationship of Qā’idat al-Jihād and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām.”
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Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an...
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Although piracy in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates is sharply down in the last year or two, threats remain and an increase in attacks is far from impossible. After all, little has been done to disrup...
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After months of good news, the mission to wipe out Syria’s chemical arsenal may have run into trouble. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is charged with ensuring disp...
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Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair.
Thus far, the Periodic...