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At 10 am, General John Campbell, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Afghanistan in 2016: The Evolving Security Situation and U.S. Policy, S...
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Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her...
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The Associated Press reports that Boko Haram burned children alive and torched Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees in Nigeria. 86 people were killed in the 4-hour assault. Charred...
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More drones, means more conflict in dronespace. The Dutch have a unique solution, captured in this video: "The Dutch police have partnered with Guard From Above, a raptor training company based in Denmar...
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Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her...
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Over the weekend, the U.S. Navy conducted another “freedom of navigation” operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea. This time, the U.S. Navy destroyer Curtis Wilbur entered waters within 12 nautical mile...
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Following the tremendous success of last year’s Triple Entente Beer Summit, the gang is back for more.
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"And yes, when I am President of the United States, if there is some place in this country where radical jihadists are planning to attack the United States, we will go after them wherever they are, and i...
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Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy exp...
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This Intelligence Studies Essay assesses open source research to determine the relative effectiveness of two alternative strategies for directing lethal attacks against terrorist groups: leadership decap...
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Editor's Note: Canada is a close American ally, and in both war and peace, the two countries seem bound at the hip. Canada, however, has its own distinct politics, interests, and capabilities, and these ...
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A busy day with a nice collection of stories (coincidentally all from the Washington Post this time around):
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Last week at The Brookings Institution, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participated in a discussion with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Newsweek’s Dahlia Lithwick about his n...
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In likely the most creative (and ridiculous) terrorist plot we’ve seen here at Lawfare, an Australian man inspired by the Islamic State was arrested for planning to pack a live kangaroo full of explosive...
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Lawfare readers may be interested in a recent talk I gave at Usenix's Enigma Conference, "The Golden Age of Bulk Surveillance."
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Tamara considers the Arab Spring five years later. What have we learned about the future of peace and stability in the region? Shane looks into who that mysterious fourth American hostage freed by Iran w...
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Yesterday, Taiwan’s outgoing president Ma Ying-jeou made a brief, but controversial visit to Itu Aba — also known as Taiping Island — in the South China Sea.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spent much of this week in Laos, Cambodia, and China in an effort to pressure Beijing to change course in the South China Sea. Returning to Washington on Wednesday, Sec...
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Not so very long ago, during Lebanon’s civil war, the way a person said the Arabic word for tomato was enough to get him or her killed. In at least one instance, Phalangists (Lebanese C...
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