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Evaluating the Russian Threat to Undersea Cables
Is vital internet infrastructure at risk from new Russian naval capabilities? NATO’s military leadership has warned in recent months that the Russian navy is aggressively probing undersea communications ... -
Sam Nunberg’s Media Meltdown—and What He Might Want to Remember About Special Prosecutors’ Powers
It is an understatement to say that Sam Nunberg is playing with fire. Nunberg, a longtime Trump adviser and former campaign aide who is on the outs with the president, went on a bizarre rampage of media... -
International Law and Cyberspace: Evolving Views
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The New German Coalition: A Government if You Can Keep It
After five months of uncertainty, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) are going to give their uneasy marriage anot... -
Frenemies: Putin and Erdogan
Editor’s Note: The relationship between Russia and Turkey has risen and fallen as the two have quarreled over Syria and their respective regional postures in general. MIT's Carol Saivetz examines this re... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Zhanna Nemtsova on Boris Nemtsov's Life
Zhanna Nemtsova is a journalist at Deutsche Welle, the founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, and the daughter of Boris Nemtsov. Feb. 27 marked the three-year anniversary since the assassin... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Let’s begin with L’Affaire Russe. Quinta Jurecic shared the House intelligence committee Democrats’ rebuttal to the Devin Nunes memo. She and Benjamin Wittes offered three key takeaways from the rebuttal... -
The National Security Law Podcast: Judge Pohl Says: ‘Hold My Beer’
No shortage of topics this week, but then again there was no shortage last week, or before that, or … ever. So, what’s on tap? Tune in to explore: -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems to be building the case to indict the Russians who carried out the hacking of the Democratic National Committee servers and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, an... -
Indicting a Sitting Prime Minister: The Israeli Constitutional Framework
The recent weeks have seen a flurry of developments in a number of criminal investigations involving Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. These developments fueled debates as to whether Netanyahu... -
Hoover Book Soiree on March 14: Niall Ferguson's 'The Square and the Tower'
The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on March 14, when Lawfare's Jack Goldsmith will interview Niall Ferguson about his new book, “T... -
Something is Rotten with the State of the Military Commissions
For readers who haven’t kept up with Lawfare’s regular coverage, the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay have just had one hell of a February. On Feb. 5, Defense Secretary James Mattis unceremoniously...
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