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In June, US Cyber Command issued Beyond the Build. It presents Admiral Michael Rogers’ vision and guidance for the command and its subordinate units. With little fanfare, the document was publically rele...
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Afghan forces, assisted by U.S.-led airstrikes. have begun operations to retake the city of Kunduz. The city fell under Taliban control yesterday, the first provincial capital to have done so since U.S.
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The explosion of digital data may have thrust us into a Golden Age of Surveillance, as individuals now create (and preserve) data that encompasses more activities and extends further into the past than e...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, and Director of the NSA Adm. Michael Rogers on "U.S. Cyb...
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Katherine Zimmerman comes on the show to talk AQAP. Some of the topics covered include:
AQAP since the death of Awlaqi and their withdrawal from territory in southern Yemen in 2012
The effect of the ...
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In August, Fox News reported that two Army soldiers, Captain Daniel Quinn and Sergeant First Class Charles Martland, faced repercussions for allegedly beating up an Afghan police commander accused of rap...
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Happy birthday Just Security, which celebrated its second anniversary by holding a debate event on "Going Dark":
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Last week's meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama produced a significant bilateral statement on cybersecurity spying: "The United States and China agree that neither country’s gov...
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On Friday, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced an agreement to cease certain forms of economic espionage via cyberattack. The “common understanding” would require both nations to h...
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Technology companies are being squeezed between U.S. and foreign laws that simultaneously compel, and prohibit, production of data in response to governmental surveillance directives. Thoughts towards a ...
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This I did not expect. The D.C. Circuit has granted en banc review in the latest round of Bahlul litigation. That means that June 2015 panel opinion which garnered so much discussion is now kaput.
Over...
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Editors Note: This article orginally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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On Friday I read the transcript of the translation of President’s Xi’s remarks with President Obama to leave a possible gap in what China and the United States agreed to in the announced cyber deal on Fr...
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Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Order from Chaos.
Turkish politics are slipping deeper into a state of chaos, with important implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East—and especi...
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Editor’s Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in...
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Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the current state-of-play in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an all-...
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In my earlier post on the cybersecurity portions of the summit, I noted the importance of an authoritative public Chinese statement on the substance of the agreement between China and the United States. ...
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With Chinese President Xi Jinping in town, it’s been a big week for all things cyber and U.S.-China relations.