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Donald Trump’s policy approach toward China and the Asia-Pacific region is a story yet to be written. The only thing observers in the United States and around the world know for sure is that uncertainty ...
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The election has made me contemplate the following question: should even the President of the United States, regardless of party or the individual involved, have the unilateral authority to order the use...
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How is the world responding to Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election? The New York Times rounds up the reactions of the key global actors.
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The transition to a Trump Administration is now underway. Among many other things, this likely will entail an effort to identify various executive orders issued by President Obama that President Trump wi...
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Sectarian tensions are already simmering before the Raqqa offensive has really begun, the AP reports. Turkey is apprehensive about the possibility of Kurdish forces spearheading the final assault on the ...
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The episode features a vigorous and friendly debate between me and Frank Cilluffo over his Center’s report on active defense, titled “Into the Gray Zone.” It’s a long and detailed analysis by the Center ...
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Protecting “cyber sovereignty” (网络空间主权) has been the lodestar of Chinese policymaking regarding the internet for much of President Xi Jinping’s administration.
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The Operation to Retake Raqqa Has Begun, But Don’t Expect Too Much Right Away
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Two days ago, Hillary Clinton was formally cleared, again, of the specter of criminal wrongdoing in the FBI’s email investigation. The only cloud left is the one history is deciding whether to permanentl...
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I doubt anyone would pay much attention to my political opinions and it would be vain to assume otherwise. Most voters have their minds made up by now. But there are some subjects as to which I have som...
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The offensive on Raqqa has begun, and it has a name: “Euphrates Rage.” The fight for the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria will be carried out by Kurdish and Arab forces with the backing of U.S. ...
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For almost exactly a year, Lawfare has been closely watching and commenting on the 2016 presidential campaign. As the campaign season finally draws to a close, below is a compendium of all the site’s ele...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, November 7th at 3pm: The Brookings Institution will host an event on Stopping North Korea, Inc.: Sanctions Effectiveness and Unintended ...
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Three weeks ago, a U.S.-led coalition made up of Iraqi military units, Kurdish Peshmerga, Sunni tribal groups and Iran-backed Shiite militias began the campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIL control. Home ...
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Editor's Note: As the Islamic State is driven from Mosul, Iraqis and the the country's neighbors are wondering who will take the group's place. The Iraqi government is weak, and Iranian-backed Shi'a mili...
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Two weeks ago, Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith sat down with David Priess at the Hoover Institution for a Hoover Book Soiree on Priess’s new book, The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligen...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz. This is part two in a two-part series. The first part can be found here.
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Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes offered a guide for those perplexed by FBI Director James Comey’s decision to revisit the investigation of the Clinton emails. They also assessed the role of Attorney G...
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In my analysis of the USS Decatur’s freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) near the China-occupied Paracel Islands last month, I wrote that the FONOP “probably” did not follow innocent passage and “most...
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The Washington Post reports that Iraqi forces entered six new neighborhoods in eastern Mosul today: Malaeen, Samah, Khazraa, Karakul, Quds, and Karamah. Their advance has opened a path for thousands of c...
