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When Tashfeen Malik, along with her husband Syed Farook, killed 14 people in San Bernardino a year ago, she provided a stark reminder about the growing involvement of women in jihadist terrorism in the W...
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The annual Cato Surveillance Conference kicked off this week with a panel on "Intelligence Under a Trump Administration," featuring former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen a...
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This week saw Donald Trump finally reach a decision as to who will serve as his Secretary of State, following an unusually public and drawn-out selection process: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson.
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On December 16 a Chinese warship snatched a U.S. underwater drone literally from under the eyes of the crew of a U.S. survey ship. The USNS Bowditch is an unarmed naval oceanographic vessel that was reco...
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In many disputes arising out of the South China Sea, China and the U.S. have different good-faith interpretations of international law. But China’s seizure of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater vehicle (UU...
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Tuesday’s hearing begins with a motion by Richard Kammen, acting for the defense, to recall yesterday’s witness Colonel Edward Sheeran for further testimony. The defense discovered last night that, as of...
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In an NPR interview, President Obama promised that the United States will “take action … at a time and place of our own choosing” in response to Russian attempts to influence the presidential election th...
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I recently received an email from a reader who works in a sensitive area at a federal government agency in response to what the author terms “the back and forth on [Lawfare about] whether to serve the in...
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After a week’s worth of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case, the activity continues at Guantanamo with another round of hearings in the USS Cole case. Military judge Air Force Colonel Vincent Spath begins...
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A week of military drills and deployments from Beijing
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in Order from Chaos.
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Evacuations are underway in Aleppo a day behind schedule, after an initial ceasefire deal to allow civilians and rebels to flee was delayed by Iranian objections. Ambulances and buses have begun shepherd...
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Should Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE) be free to take control of U.S. companies or companies that otherwise affect the United States’s national security interests? That’s one of the questions tack...
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The CIA concludes that Russian hackers tried to help Donald Trump get elected. Trump will nominate Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state. And the Obama administration is confident that j...
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If President-elect Trump’s post-election rhetoric is to be believed, the pillars of his immigration policy appear to be slowly teetering.
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The bombing of Aleppo began once again on Wednesday morning despite a ceasefire deal that would have allowed the evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters to rebel-held territory, stranding both civilia...
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Few of the many unexpected intellectual twists and turns of the early post-9/11 years of the Bush administration were quite so unexpected—or quite so twisty and turny—as the sudden return to prominence o...
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There has been a lot of talk on this blog and elsewhere over just how panicked we should be at the prospect of a Trump presidency, and over whether and how the incoming administration might be reined in.
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