Thanks to Lawfare for hosting me again.  I enjoyed my last visit, when I wrote about the U.S.

Gregory McNeal of Pepperdine University School of Law has been doing fascinating research on the actual processes U.S. forces use in targeting. Most recently, he's been working on the actual processes by...

According to the FAA, you can't fly the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 in the D.C. Flight Restricted Zone.

The old joke goes:  "What's denial?"  Answer: "A river in Egypt."  Apparently it now flows through China too.  Here's a taste from Global Times: The absurd allegation that a Chinese military unit is behi...

I noted last week than in his answer to the question whether the Obama administration could “carry out drone strikes inside the United States,” John Brennan gave this non-response: “This Administration h...

Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet.  (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.)  Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ...

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Chicago lawyer Pejman Yousefzadeh writes in, at my request, with the following thoughts on teaching students to counter cyber threats using the ancient strategic game of Go. Pejman, who writes a very int...

Former Obama administration Acting and Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal has an interesting op-ed today in the NYT that criticizes the idea of an Article III “drone court” and proposes instead a “Nati...

I have often asked whether the Obama administration had a strategy to confront the apparently enormous problem of cyber exploitation by the Chinese against U.S. firms.  Yesterday it published the Adminis...

Tuesday, Ben bemoaned the state of drone-themed humor in the New York Times, and followed it up yesterday morning with a tale of national security parody gone awry.

So we learn from this petition, filed with the Court of Military Commission Review ("CMCR") last Thursday. Here's a taste, from the document's "Preliminary Statement:" This petition for a writ of mandam...