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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
On August 17, Syrian officials oversaw the opening of the first Damascus International Exhibition since the start of the Syrian uprising. Reflect...
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North Korea launched an intermediate range ballistic missile that flew over northern Japan early Tuesday morning, the New York Times reported.
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Saudi Arabia Grooms Qatari Royal as Feud Continues
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Last December, Congress passed the Military Justice Act of 2016, which then-President Barack Obama subsequently signed.
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It’s official: After first announcing that transgender persons would be barred from serving in the military via three
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On Friday, the White House announced that the President intends to nominate Adam Klein to be a Member and the Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. If confirmed, Adam will join Bet...
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The always-interesting Richard Danzig has a new Lawfare Working Paper, forthcoming for the Aspen Strategy Group this fall, on how rapid multiple technological innovation might challenge the liberal world...
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President Donald Trump’s company pursued a Trump Tower deal in Moscow during the 2016 campaign, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Linked to the previously undisclosed deal is Russian-born real-esta...
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A review of Ben Buchanan's The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Calls for Papers
National Security Law – New Voices In National Security Scholarship Works In Progress
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There has been no shortage of editorial commentary on the potential impact of having military officers occupy so many senior positions in the Trump Administration. Whether the development is good or bad,...
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Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a foggy story noting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next...
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Editor’s Note: Making other countries more effective U.S. security partners is a vital part of counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and U.S. foreign policy in general. Yet it seems to fail often, and supp...
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This week, the guest on the podcasts was you: the listener. Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey answered your questions, submitted by email and by Twitter using the #LawfareQuestions hashtag. The topics ...
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As I noted in my post yesterday, the Chinese government has declined to clarify how and whether it believes the international law governing the use of applies to cyber warfare. Its refusal to do so has d...
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President Trump issued his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio apparently without a Justice Department recommendation or even consultation, according to various outlets citing unnamed officials. It is a ...
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On Saturday, Robert Williams described a policy toward China that might enable a deal on North Korea. Covering other developments in the Asia-Pacific region, Julian Ku noted that trying to constrain Chin...
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On our Foreign Policy feed, we explain how the law protects the President's ability to start a nuclear war. The article begins:
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In a scathing New York Times op-ed today, Micah Zenko lays into the Trump administration both for maintaining the “counterproductive” and “immoral” counterterrorism policies of its predecessors (particul...
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In Kiev, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said that the United States was considering providing defensive weapons to Ukraine, reports the New York Times.
