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We are back with the latest national security law news, with your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney explaining; debating; and–let’s face it–geeking out. This week we’ve got:
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As most Lawfare readers know, the United States accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers on June 13 in the Gulf of Oman and crippling the ships with explosions that were presumably caused by naval mines...
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In May 2017, protests in Washington, D.C., against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended in violence by Turkish security officials.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam publicly apologized for proposing the controversial extradition bill which sparked mass protests in Hong Kong but said that she would not resign, the New York Times r...
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The New York Times reported on June 15 that “the United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin.” In particular, the Times r...
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Last month, the First American Financial Corporation—which provides title insurance for millions of Americans—acknowledged a cybersecurity vulnerability that potentially exposed 885 million private finan...
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Iran announced that it will violate the 2015 nuclear deal unless it receives assurances from European nations that they will help Iran circumvent the effects of United States sanctions, reports the New Y...
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On June 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in Karnoski v. Trump, one of the cases challenging the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals.
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A blockbuster article by David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth in the New York Times reports U.S. Cyber Command operations to hold at-risk at least some aspects of the electric power grid in Russia. The story...
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I am not a fan of Julian Assange. In fact, I’ve even managed to get the WikiLeaks official Twitter account to block me. But now that the U.S.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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It's getting ugly in the Persian Gulf: Iran allegedly attacks two oil tankers. It announces that it's going to violate the JCPOA, the so-called Iran nuclear agreement. There's talk of military strikes. E...
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On April 23, Egypt’s National Election Authority announced that a package of amendments to the country’s 2014 constitution had been approved in a national referendum.
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Over the past two decades, extremists have successfully exploited both intrastate politics and interstate relations to further their own state-building projects. In particular, they have targeted margina...
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Russian and Chinese leaders understand that they’re unlikely to win a shooting war with the United States, but they have other ways to challenge Western interests, turning our greatest strengths—open soc...
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Nancy Pelosi has made her position clear: She is not budging from her opposition to impeachment. The speaker of the House considers those who advocate for impeachment proceedings to be naive political ex...
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As part of an ongoing debate about U.S. cyber strategy, Dan Efrony argued that U.S. and its allies’ highly ambiguous approach to law and policy in cyberspace undermines attempts to develop clear binding ...
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The “hackback” debate has been with us for many years.
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Two seminal events have occurred in recent days in the ongoing oversight war between the House of Representatives and the Trump administration—and in the ongoing expansion of the doctrine of executive pr...
