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Jonathan Horowitz Comments on Army Manual on Avoiding Civilian Harm
Jonathan Horowitz of the Open Society Justice Initiative has largely positive comments on the new Army manual on avoiding civilian harm. It opens: This month, Lawfareblog.com posted the U.S. -
Very Interesting Comment on the Lawfare Drone Smackdown
I just received a very interesting email from Major John Harwood, USAF, whom I met recently at the MILOPS Conference in Singapore, in response to my post this morning about the coming Drone Smackdown: I ... -
Federalist Society Teleforum on Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l
This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Washington Post has more on who was behind the deadly attacks in Iraq and what they mean for country's stability. Reuters reports that five female detainees linked to Al Qaeda have been released by ... -
Readings: Clausewitz for Kids
The other day, Wells drew my attention to what could be the single most excellently eccentric national security-oriented project currently ongoing on the web: It is called Clausewitz for Kids. I am appar... -
Michael Chertoff on Google's Safari Hack
Former Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, concerning Google's subversion of Safari's security settings. Here's the introduction: In the cyber age, privac... -
I'm Not Going to Make Fun of this New York Times Editorial
I'm just going to link to it. There's some rhetoric I wouldn't use in here, but--as I said before and as Steve explained here--this is a provocative step the government has taken, and it shouldn't do thi... -
Laurie Blank on Mark Mazzetti's 'The Drone Zone' - Last in Series from Lewis, Dunlap, Rona, Corn, and Anderson
Laurie Blank, professor at Emory Law School and director of its International Humanitarian Law Clinic, gives Lawfare the last in the series of guest comments on Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine ar... -
New Army Manual on Preventing Harm to Civilians
Over at Forbes.com, the estimable Gregory McNeal has this article about a new Army manual on preventing harm to civilians. -
Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security has just released a new book, Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law which will, I'm sure, be of intere... -
Michael Lewis on 'The Drone Zone', Dunlap, Rona, Corn, and Anderson
We will have two final posts in our discussion sparked by Mark Mazzetti's New York Times Magazine article, The Drone Zone. This one by Michael Lewis, a former Navy fighter pilot and now professor at Ohi... -
Scott Shane on the Moral Case for Drones
An important news analysis piece from Scott Shane of the New York Times. I'm glad Shane took the time to lay this out. Though the point seems very obvious to me, it is decidedly non-obvious to many peopl...
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