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After responding yesterday to Matt and Ken on lethal autonomous robots, Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski now takes aim at my critique of his group's report on robots with autonomous lethal capability.
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Walter Russell Mead coined the phrase “Libyan afterparty” to describe the many unintended and unhappy consequences – especially for the rise of Islamist terrorist power centers in Northern Africa – of th...
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Let’s begin with NDAA news: It passed the Senate yesterday 98-0, and, as our readers should know by now, it once again restricts the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay and now prohibits the milita...
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The ICRC, on its blog Intercross, has responded to a pair of recent articles in Slate on weapons.
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Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch has responded to our critique of their recent report on autonomous lethal systems. We will post some more detailed thoughts on this later, but in the meantime we'd l...
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As readers know, last Thursday the Senate approved Senator Feinstein’s amendment to the NDAA, regarding the domestic detention of citizens and lawful permanent residents.
That wasn’t all.
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General Carter F. Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, spoke at George Washington University yesterday, and detailed how Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb is using Mali as a safe haven to recruit and train te...
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Belatedly, I want to note the completion -- on October 18/19 -- of the “Copenhagen Process on the Handling of Detainees in International Military Operations” and the release of “The Copenhagen Process Pr...
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Just in case you had a good weekend, Bruce Riedel of Brookings gives us the latest update on Al Qaeda’s emerging power bases in The Daily Beast: Under siege by drones in Pakistan and Yemen, al Qaeda ...
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I linked earlier to this new article in the course of critiquing Human Rights Watch's report on "killer robots," but it's worth separate notice.
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Most discussion of the NDAA on this blog focuses on detainee-related provisions, and a familiar argument is that some of these provisions inappropriately tie the President’s hands, stripping the executiv...
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One of the things that has struck me about the debate concerning cybersecurity legislation is that we don't have a really good baseline of existing legal authorities for the protection of cyberspace. Sl...
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. . . here it is.
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Those of you who followed the Lawfare Drone Smackdown will be interested in this post on DIY Drones:
We had a a great time at the Drone Games at the Groupon offices in SF today. (They used to be called t...
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I have now read the Human Rights Watch report, "Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots"---which calls for a preemptive ban on "fully autonomous" weapons systems and which Matt and Ken critiqued ...
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I agree entirely with Ken that DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s speech on the end-of-conflict with al Qaeda “makes a serious attempt to grapple with the conditions defining the endgame” and is “a signif...
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Wells is exactly right--and Senators Levin and Graham are exactly wrong--about the implications of last night's Senate vote approving Senator Feinstein's amendment to the FY2013 National Defense Authoriz...
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Sectarian violence in Iraq has claimed the lives of 33 people, mainly Shi’a, reports the BBC.
The excellently-named Tech Dirt reports that Facebook “likes” and “shares” are evidence of material support ...
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Readers of Lawfare must sometimes wonder what all the cyber fuss is about. How, after all, does cyber conflict occur. Current events in Syria give a good sense of how conflict is happening. Here is an...
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As I posted in my news roundup yesterday, a drone strike in South Waziristan killed two militants, according to the Express Tribune and Dawn.
