Despite admitting to its biggest civilian harm incidents in years, the U.S. military has not accounted for dozens of victims from 2025.

Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.

A new semi-regular column of essays on law and computation, not quite ready for Substack

The U.S. needs a strategy to counter China’s leverage in cyberspace. 

Once model weights are published, developers lose control. Export controls can still work—but only at the right chokepoints.

AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.

The UN Fact-Finding Commission concludes that the United States has committed war crimes. It could have said more to make a convincing case.

Reconsidering Obama’s Syria red line and its lessons for Iran.

Your weekly summary of everything on the site.

Hackers stole thousands of FBI employees’ data, including about new hires and people in sensitive roles. It’s like giving a foreign adversary a gold mine.

A review of Ahana Datta Fasel, “Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US-China Competition” (Hurst, 2026).

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.