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Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul is a Yemeni citizen, currently held in Guantanamo Bay, who was convicted in a military commission under the 2006 Military Commissions Act for “inchoate conspiracy” to co...
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Details of a Deal Emerge between Manila and Beijing
President Xi Jinping welcomes President Rodrigo Duterte to Beijing (Photo: Straits Times)
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Coalition forces fighting to retake Mosul from the Islamic State continued to make progress today, reports the Washington Post. Iraq’s elite, U.S.-trained counterterrorism forces engaged ISIS militants i...
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Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins provided the following statement on pretrial hearings this week in the USS Cole case.
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An observation made in the briefing report War-Algorithm Accountability (featured in a Readings post last week) is that weapons are not the only military systems increasingly defined by algorithms, autom...
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Iraqi and U.S. forces begin the campaign to reclaim the city of Mosul, ISIS’s major stronghold in Iraq. Retired Gen. James Cartwright pleads guilty to lying to federal leak investigators. And three Kansa...
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The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at the University of Nevada Las Vegas last night, with Chris Wallace moderating. In the most important moment o...
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In an en banc decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Ali Hamza al-Bahlul's conviction by military commission for conspiracy to commit war crimes. The decision is the opposite of the court's...
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A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an op-ed by Mario Berlanga, a recently graduated Stanford MBA student from Mexico, which chides Americans of all types—and especially those who “consider the...
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On October 5, the International Court of Justice dismissed the Marshall Islands’ nuclear nonproliferation litigation for lack of jurisdiction. The judgments subtly critiqued the island nation for its em...
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In my first post on this subject, I quoted a news story in fedscoop saying that
The development of “loud” offensive cyber tools, [that could be definitively traced to the United States and thus] able t...
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Like many of you, I find myself unable to resist watching the debate this evening despite the fact that the last one actually left me felling physically ill. But I'm hoping to lighten the experience a bi...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.
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The Mosul offensive has reached its third day as Kurdish and Iraqi government forces continue their push to recapture the villages surrounding the urban center, Reuters reports. As of yesterday, the coal...
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After a short one-month break, military judge Air Force Colonel Vance Spath returned to gavel in the Al-Nashiri trial. After introducing a new member of the defense team, Rosa Eliades, the judge spends ...
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Lawfare is now accepting spring internship applications. For more details, check out the Brookings application announcement and apply here.
Overview:
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Recent disclosures about Donald Trump’s remarks to Billy Bush have raised speculation that unaired footage from The Apprentice might contain similarly troubling content, which would cause obvious problem...
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The constitutional text governing national security law is full of gaps and oversights. This is particularly true with regard to the President. Notwithstanding occasional claims of extra-constitutional, ...
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The next Administration faces a daunting list of challenges that combine military power and profound societal issues—from Mosul after ISIS, to another new strategy for Afghanistan, to preventing the furt...
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Bill Clinton ran for president as a “New Democrat,” one who would thread the needle between Left and Right.
George W. Bush promised that he was “a uniter, not a divider” and a “compassionate conservativ...
