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Today's Headlines and Commentary
After a brief period of moderated bombing, Russia has resumed its campaign of intensive airstrikes against rebel positions in eastern Aleppo, Reuters writes. -
How Did Participation in the First World War Help Shape Modern America?
PDF version A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016). *** -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement yesterday on the resumption of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay this week. His statement is also avai... -
Middle East Ticker: Aleppo Under Siege, Turkey and Iraq Spar Over Troop Presence, and Morocco Votes
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National Security Highlights from the Second Presidential Debate
The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
On Friday afternoon, the United States formally accused the Kremlin of hacking and releasing Democratic Party information to interfere with the U.S. -
Grab 'em by the Constitution: Trump and the Justice Department
I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so. A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D... -
Congress Heal Thyself
As I noted last month, the oldest outstanding recommendation, unfulfilled since the 9/11 Commission report, is for Congress to fix its jurisdicitional morass and provide effective, unified oversight of t... -
The Week That Will Be
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Which States Support the 'Unwilling and Unable' Test?
As readers of Lawfare know, a growing number of States believe that use of force in self-defense against a non-state actor on the territory of a third State, without the consent of that third State, may ... -
NSA Compliance and Congress’s Plan: How to Account for Flaws in the Metadata Program?
In the extraordinary transparency that followed Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations, one tantalizing mystery remained: how did the NSA persist until early 2009 in querying metadata under the now-replaced s... -
"War-Algorithm Accountability": A Briefing Report from the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Armed Conflict
Congratulations to Dustin Lewis, Gabriella Blum, and Naz Modirzadeh on the publication, just a few weeks ago, of their exciting new book, War-Algorithm Accountability.
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