The gavel bangs. The military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, calls the proceedings to order. Members of the prosecution are absent, their place taken by a Special Review Team that has been looking into ...

The Harvard National Security Journal just published an unusually good issue that will be of interest to many Lawfare readers. The piece I have read most carefully is Intelligence Legalism and the Natio...

Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---venue for closed circuit TV monitoring of courtroom proceedings down at Guantanamo.  At the base in Cuba, the military commission case against ...

This is interesting. From the Pew Research Center: About two-thirds of investigative journalists surveyed (64%) believe that the U.S. government has probably collected data about their phone calls, email...

Here y'are.  Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks begin as follows: Good afternoon. On this day in 1949, the bill that ultimately became the Uniform Code of Military Justice was introduced into both houses o...

Last week the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its 2015 Signals Intelligence Reform Report, designed to highlight the intelligence community’s implementation of Presidential Polic...

The latest installation of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative focuses on confidence-building measures, or CBMs. Pioneered in the Cold War, CBMs are programs, activities, or agreements that aim to...

Editor’s Note: U.S. foreign policy is a disaster. This lament is heard about every administration, but rarely is it true. Joshua Rovner, a professor at Southern Methodist University, points out that the ...

In the past few days, in the wake of ISIS's horrific burning of a Jordanian air force pilot, Jordan has adopted a highly combative tone toward the group.  It has matched this rhetoric with action: Its a...

Recent comments by Secretary of Defense-nominee Ashton Carter and Secretary of State

The South China Sea ranks high on any list of the world’s geopolitical hotspots. But though the region has been volatile for centuries, the last two decades have witnessed a subtle shift in the underlyin...

Here it is, given by Brian McKeon, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. And here's the video of yesterday's hearing:

At the top of the hour, the Brookings Institution will host US National Security Adviser Susan Rice for the launch of President Obama's National Security Strategy, which was released earlier today. Durin...

Senator Tom Cotton, whom I like, doesn’t support the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center.  As the SASC hearing today he said of the Guantanamo detainees, “every last one of them can rot in hel...