Jhesus-Maria, King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the Kingdom of France, you, Guillaume de la Poule, count of Suffort, Jean, sire of Talbot, and you, Thomas, sire of Sc...

Mary Dudziak has a truly bizarre oped in the New York Times today taking on the Obama administration's drone wars on, let's just say, a new basis: that President Nixon once secretly bombed Cambodia. I'm...

In my prior posts I discussed the process of targeted killing, and some of the accountability mechanisms embedded in the process.  This post, and my next and final post will address reform recommendation...

Keith Gerver writes in with the following account of yesterday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, which seems to have tracked closely some recent arguments on Lawfare: The recent debate betwee...

So we learn from this announcement, released this afternoon by the Department of Defense: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has designated Honorable Paul L. Oostburg Sanz to serve as the convening authori...

Following up on Wells’ post, I increasingly think that the shift in drone authorities from CIA to DOD  first reported by Dan Klaidman might not amount to much in substance, and that any proposed changes ...

Lawfarers are by now steeped in this news: the White House apparently intends to diminish the CIA's responsibility for drone strikes, and to transfer that responsibility, over time, to the Department of ...

Matt Waxman has just published a new cyber paper that’s well worth reading. The piece picks up on an earlier article of Matt’s that explored when states might treat cyber-attacks as "force" or "armed att...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday held a hearing on "Counterterrorism Policies and Priorities: Addressing the Evolving Threat." Video is available here. The witnesses, and their prepared s...

Charlie Savage of the New York Times has this story this morning on the hunger strikes at Guantanamo. It includes this lengthy statement from Captain Robert Durand, Director of Public Affairs, JTF-Gutana...

As Jack mentioned, Dan Klaidman of the Daily Beast reported today that “the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Over at Fo...

Military commission accused Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulaiman al-Bahlul has submitted his response to the government's petition for rehearing by the full D.C.

Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun (aka Spin Ghul) is in custody in Brooklyn, facing an array of federal court charges stemming from alleged al Qaeda activities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria betwe...

While we appreciate Ben's answer to our question (and share his view that we’re reaching the point of the conversation where everything has been said and everyone has said it), we still fail to understan...

In their latest post, Jen and Steve ask me the following question: "Why, exactly, are you so convinced that [ad hoc Congressional authorization for armed conflict is] unrealistic, and that we’d be better...

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate invo...

Filed March 14th in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii: a criminal complaint against a civilian defense contractor, Benjamin Bishop, for unlawfully leaking national security secrets to his girlfriend.  Th...

Ben writes that it is the “political reality” that “any president is going to feel obliged to maintain counterterrorism on offense,” i.e., counterterrorism through military means, “and Congress—whining, ...