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Brace yourselves, because it's been a busy couple of weeks for terrorists, law enforcement, and prosecutors.
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The other day, the Lawfare high command met in its secured bunker beneath our mountain in an undisclosed location to plot the fate of the world—or, at least, to plot how better to serve the Lawfare reade...
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Bonnie and Clyde are a thing of the past. Bank robberies have declined in the past several years, a function in part of improved security measures.
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Manila triangulates relationship with Washington, Beijing, and Tokyo
President Duterte and Prime Minister Abe meet in Tokyo (Photo: Reuters)
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The U.S.-backed Raqqa offensive is imminent, and the New York Times reports that it will follow the general blueprint of the Mosul offensive. The United States is cobbling together a coalition of Kurdish...
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I am teaching a seminar at Yale Law School this term, and the students there asked me—based on my experiences with Lawfare—to give a talk about student online writing. (I am also teaching a how-to “labo...
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As the U.K. government prepares itself for the beginning of Brexit negotiations in March 2017, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no off-ramp—and, for that matter, no brakes on the car. If y...
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Editor's Note: With the operation in Mosul well underway, Iraq expert and Brookings Doha visiting fellow Ranj Alaaldin sat down with Brookings Doha’s Communications Assistant Sumaya Attia to discuss why ...
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump enter the home stretch of the presidential campaign. Hackers take down a key component of the Internet in an unprecedented attack. And WikiLeaks makes some unexpected all...
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This is a plug for a new cyber policy book out this month: Cyber Insecurity: Navigating the Perils of the Next Information Age, edited by Richard Harrison, Director of Operations and Defense Technology P...
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Here’s a free suggestion for President Obama and to FBI Director James Comey, for that matter: Take a trip to Kansas.
Kansas? Whatever for?
To visit some meatpackers, of course.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that a new offensive against the Islamic State’s capital in Raqqa is only weeks away, NBC reports. The start of the Raqqa offensive would follow only weeks ...
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Earlier this month, 18-year-old Mahin Khan of Tucson, Arizona pleaded guilty to terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons.
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Review of David Priess's The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama (PublicAffairs, 2016).
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Three terrorists attacked a Pakistani police academy in Quetta on Monday night, killing at least 61 people, reports the Wall Street Journal. The militants broke into the training center’s dorms and kille...
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Our guest for the episode is Rob Silvers, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity policy at DHS. He talks about what the government can and should do about newly potent DDOS attacks and the related pro...
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Last Friday, on the heels of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declaring his “separation from the United States” during a visit to China, the USS Decatur conducted a freedom of navigation operation (F...
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Hearings continued on Wednesday in the Al-Nashiri case. After some preliminary matters, the commission turns immediately to the matter at hand: the testimony of Stephen D. Gill, on redirect. On Monday th...
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The End of Sisi’s Authoritarian Honeymoon
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A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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