PDF Version A review of Lucas Kello’s The Virtual Weapon and International Order (Yale University Press, 2017). ***

The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl...

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Turkey and Russia Bombard Syrian Towns

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Lawfare readers are familiar with the perennial regulatory challenge of determining which country’s law enforcement agents ought to be able to access internet data stored in the cloud. This is a consider...