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War would be easier if an enemy agreed to stand still. Unfortunately, in actual armed conflicts dynamic adversaries constantly strive to gain the tactical upper hand.
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Less than three years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, which held that the Alien Tort Statute is presumed not to apply to conduct on the sovereign territory of other ...
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On December 27, China’s National People’s Congress passed the country’s much-debated anti-terrorism legislation.
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Here we go again.
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Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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According to a European Commission fact sheet on the Right to Be Forgotten, “individuals have the right - under certain conditions - to ask search engines to remove links with personal information about ...
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The first amusing thing about the Wall Street Journal’s new NSA story is that it has conservatives and pro-Israel types sounding suspiciously like Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden. Here's former House ...
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Breaking news from the Pentagon today as it announced that the U.S.-led coalition has killed 10 ISIS leaders in the past month, including individuals associated with last month’s attacks in Paris. One of...
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Just in time for the new year, China has passed its new counter-terrorism law. Here (HT: Adam Segal) is a partial English translation of it. What strikes me most clearly in the text is the (purposeful?...
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Most days, Moshav Netiv HaAsarah is a tranquil oasis of snug bungalows and Mediterranean-style gardens. Sadly, however quaint the scene, it’s hard to ignore the 50-foot blast walls. Moshav Netiv HaAsarah...
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Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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We return today to the news that Iraqi security forces have retaken most of Ramadi from Islamic State militants. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, fell to ISIS in May.
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Why do all the powers supposedly arrayed against the terrorist organization calling itself the Islamic State (IS) seem incapable to date of effectively hitting its strongholds in Syria?
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Buried at the end of the Consolidated Appropriations Act signed by President Obama on December 18 is a long and complex provision that creates a new “United States Victims of State Sponsors of Terrorism ...
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Editor's Note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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Oona Hathaway and I have an op-ed in the Washington Post today about the USG pre-publication review process’s “pervasive and unjustifiable harms to freedom of speech.” The gist:
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It was in the middle of an intense week of briefings and meetings in Israel last week that I awoke in my hotel room from a dream in which, my amused son told me, I had been babbling audibly, if not coher...
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This is the final post in a series analyzing the Daskal-Woods reform proposal for law enforcement demands for communications content across national borders. Daskal and Woods have proposed that countrie...
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Omni-CISA has passed. Privacy advocates are waxing outraged and pundits are tallying the winners and losers. Over at Just Security, Jennifer Granick ominously warns that:
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