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Long War Journal reports an airstrike on three AQAP fighters in Hadramout, Yemen, earlier today. By LWJ's count, this would be strike number 23 for the year (suggesting 2013 might fall short of 2012's h...
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On Monday, the Senate approved in a 91-0 vote to proceed to debate on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, and floor debate began today.
We've covered the competing bills on Lawfare, one passed ...
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Georgetown University political scientist C. Christine Fair has been a leading voice in challenging much of the conventional wisdom about the nature of conflict in Pakistan, including the role of US dron...
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Over at Just Security, David Cole rounds out our exchange on global international privacy rights. I'm going to let him have the final word here and merely link to his post as a reader service. As I think...
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As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.” In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin...
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The legislation, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday approved by a 13-2 vote, can be found here. The Committee's press release sums up the bill and can be found here.
There's al...
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It’s no accident that ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s trial happened in a place called the Fifth Settlement, which was, until ten years ago, in the middle of the desert. Parts of it fit that description...
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Over at The National Interest, I just published a short piece about the military balance in East Asia.
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In his response earlier this week, Jens Iverson correctly points out that the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits states parties from “retain[ing]” chemical weapons. And states do, of course, keep the...
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The CIA's efforts to deny the ACLU's FOIA requests for records about the Agency's involvement in drone-based targeted killings continue apace in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The ...
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A coda to Bobby's post below asking about the legal views underlying US operations in Somalia over the past three weeks. Three weeks ago, SEALs attempted a capture operation against a target on the coas...
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In an excellent Lawfare post last month, Does the U.N.’s Syria Resolution Violate the Chemical Weapons Convention? Faiza Patel asserts that if Syria sent chemical weapons to another country, Syria would...