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President Trump’s May 24 emergency declaration regarding threats from Iran allows Raytheon to partner with the Saudi Arabian Military Industries Company, a state-owned enterprise, to assemble parts for t...
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Robert Mueller must have known that he was having serious trouble with his public when New York Times columnist Gail Collins suggested he might be a wimp.
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Whatever else 2019 turns out to be, it will enjoy a strong case for being remembered as the golden age of debate over American national security strategy. In the month of April alone, four publications p...
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On June 11, the House of Representatives will consider a resolution to enable committee chairs to seek judicial enforcement of subpoenas with only the approval of a panel of House leadership, rather than...
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A new Lawfare Institute e-book, "Reflections on the Mueller Report," is now available on Kindle.
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In a growing number of cases over the past few years, China has used state-sponsored kidnapping as a means of delivering rough justice to individuals abroad. Both Chinese citizens and foreign nationals h...
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The U.S. is pursuing an arms deal with Taiwan worth over $2 billion, Reuters says. The sale reportedly includes tanks, as well as anti-tank and anti-aircraft munitions.
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Bob Mueller says you should read his full report—and I certainly don’t want to discourage anyone from listening to Mueller.
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During the past several years, platforms like Twitter,YouTube and Facebook have used a combination of automated detection and human review to identify and remove extremist accounts and content from their...
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Elad Gil argues that judges too frequently rely on the executive’s special competence in foreign affairs to apply a de facto presumption of near-total deference, which he terms “totemic functionalism.” H...
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In July 2017, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. This post provides our data for the month of May 2019—an...
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In 1957, Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis. Pearson was the first to push for the idea of a large-scale peacekeeping mission, a...
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Robert Mueller speaks! What does it mean for the future of investigations and possible impeachment hearings? Bill Barr is given new authorities to declassify information about the Russia probe. And Jared...
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Several parties have sued the federal government in connection with the Trump administration's decision to repurpose funds to build a wall along the southern border pursuant to a national emergency decla...
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Since the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration twice approved transfers of unclassified nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Sen. Tim Kaine said, according to the...
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On Friday, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced the establishment of an “unreliable entities” list. Gao Feng, a ministry spokesman, said that “foreign enterprises, organizations and individuals that do...
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In May 2018, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal—also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Shortly thereafter, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announc...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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George Nader, a key witness in the Special Counsel’s investigation, was arrested on Monday, having been charged in January 2018 with transporting child pornography, the Washington Post reports.
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In movies and TV shows like Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland, Hollywood has fictionalized the roles of intelligence officers in tracking down terrorists. But the truth is often filled with personal and poli...
