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The Post ran an important story on Saturday, building on its earlier reporting concerning the development of a "disposition matrix" and other tools for the management of the counterterrorism enterprise. ...
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Despite the unsurprising focus on domestic policy in President Obama’s second inaugural address today, his speech was not entirely devoid of national security issues. “We will defend our people and uphol...
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Oaths, poems, 472 evening balls---color me unimpressed.
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As readers probably already know, the Senate ended an otherwise largely legislation-light 2012 by approving a controversial five-year extension of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), which the House h...
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Many Lawfare readers have probably seen notices or reviews of Max Boot's brand-new book on the history of guerrilla warfare, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to t...
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting at a dinner next to Stephen Krasner, a Stanford political scientist who used to head the State Department's policy planning staff.
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A very interesting post from Dwight Sullivan over at the CAAFlog about a litigation of which I was previously unaware:
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Three more new additions to the Lawfare news feed:
Wired's Threat Level blog, which covers online privacy and crime;
Foreign Policy's Killer Apps blog, which will---unfortunately---only appear on the ...
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The American Society of International Law has released a new "ASIL Insight" on law applicable to autonomous weapon systems. (ASIL Insights are short, descriptive pieces on topical issues meant as non-te...
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We end the evening with this procedural nugget from Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal: in Hamdan II, the deadline for the United States to seek en banc review from the D.C. Circuit, or a writ of cer...
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CNN is reporting that TSA has announced the removal of all Rapiscan X-ray backscatter airport machines, to be accom
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As Wells noted, the Guantánamo Military Commission Convening Authority has declined to adopt Chief Prosecutor Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's recommendation to withdraw the conspiracy charges against Khalid Sh...
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What is the United States actually doing so far, and what else reportedly is on the table?
1. So far we have agreed to provide airlift support to the French, on their dime. That is, France is going to p...
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Whoa.
Remember the Chief Prosecutor's tactical recommendation to pull standalone conspiracy charges in the 9/11 case---in light of the D.C.
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I have an op-ed in today's Washington Post entitled (in the print edition) "Aiding Syria: Easier said than done" in which I describe some of the international legal obstacles to intervening in Syria. H...
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The raid earlier this week on the Algerian natural gas facility is being tied to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian terrorist. His nicknames include “the Prince,” “the one-eyed,” and perhaps most frustratin...
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It's that time of year again...Duke Law's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security's Annual Conference.
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in from The Hague with the following account of the Boundaries of the Battlefield symposium he has been attending there:
Although some members of Co...
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Remember that order, in which the military judge denied a defense request to presume the Constitution's application in the 9/11 case? The ruling wasn't available earlier---it hadn't yet cleared securit...
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The day’s top news story is that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants have taken at least seven U.S. citizens hostage, in a takeover of Alergia's In Amenas gas field. SecDef Leon Panetta has called...
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