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The New York Times's latest editorial on Guantanamo is so packed full of confused thinking and weird non-sequiturs that I want to go through its claims and logic (such as it is) line by line.
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The country’s reaction to the heartbreaking massacre in Orlando has been dispiritingly predictable. When guns—and seemingly no other weapon—are involved in a national tragedy, initial talk of unity rapid...
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As the Obama administration approaches its end, it is interesting to watch former Obama administration officials debate and disagree about its legal legacy. The most recent episode came in response to th...
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In June, 2014, the Islamic State stunned the world when the terrorist organization seized the city of Mosul from Iraqi soldiers who dropped their weapons and fled. Just two years later, the would-be cali...
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Ann Larabee's 2015 book, The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society (Oxford UP 2015), is a history of what Larabee terms "popular weapons manuals."
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Editor's Note: This piece also appears on the Power Wars blog and Just Security.
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Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, who runs the Justice Department's National Security Division, has a new paper out in the Harvard National Security Journal entitled "Detect, Disrupt, Deter: A Whol...
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Last week saw another lawsuit filed against social media companies for alleged materially supporting terrorists by providing service to ISIS.
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The Supreme Court handed down its ruling this week in RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community, holding that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) applies extraterritorially in cer...
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Since I have been a skeptic of the US-China agreement last fall on state-sponsored commercial cyber theft to benefit local firms (most recently here), I should acknowledge the new report by Fireye that c...
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Almost four years ago, I wrote the following in a post on lone shooters:
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Traces of uranium discovered by investigators from the International Atomic Energy Agency at a secretive Iranian military base strongly suggest that Tehran pursued a nuclear bomb despite its longstanding...
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Following a terrorist attack, questions unavoidably arise as to whether the FBI did enough to prevent it. It is not only the press speculating, the FBI is asking itself the same questions—the Inspection ...
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Rumors are swirling that the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitral tribunal will release its long-awaited award in Philippines v. China this week. China has already said it will not com...
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Today, the Senate will vote on proposed gun control legislation. While it is unclear if Senate Democrats will be able to garner enough support from Republican colleagues to pass any of the Democrat-backe...
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Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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Editor's Note: Discussion of the Orlando killings has focused on the role of the Islamic State and the self-radicalization of so-called "Lone Wolves." The killings, however, also are an act of unspeakab...
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As I mentioned earlier, this past week I was privileged to attend a conference on the State of the Field in the study of Cyber Conflict sponsored by the Columbia School of International and Public Affair...
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Fred Kaplan joined me this week at the Hoover Book Soiree for a terrific discussion of his new book, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War:
