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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.
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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.
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One of the issues we discussed regarding the proposed cybersecurity bills in the Senate was the question of a regulatory system to identify best practices and require them for critical infrastructure. I...
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Here it is ... this version is dated November 21, 2012, so it seems to be the current iteration: White House Draft Executive Order (Dated 11-21-12). Analysis to follow .....
