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Donald Trump created major diplomatic waves and risked endangering the U.S. relationship with China on Friday afternoon by speaking by phone with Taiwanese President Tsai Ying-Wen, the first time that th... -
The White House Releases a "Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks" on American Uses of Military Force
Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's na... -
The End of the NIT
Lawfare readers by now should be very familiar with the concept of the FBI's Network Investigatory Technique or NIT, a small piece of malicious code that exploits the target’s computer to generate a mess... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, December 5th at 1:30pm: New America will host a discussion on Fighting for Humanity in War, featuring Yves Dacord, Elisa Massimino, and ... -
CNAS Event on "Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond"
On Monday, December 12th, the Center for a New American Security will be hosting an event of interest to Lawfare readers on "Surveillance Policy: A Pragmatic Agenda for 2017 and Beyond." The event will f... -
The Viability of the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Hybrid Warfare
It is increasingly common to hear the term “hybrid warfare” used to describe the complexities of the modern battlefield. When Russia uses a “combination of instruments, some military and some non-militar... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
On Saturday, December 3rd, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement on the pretrial hearings to be conducted in the 9/11 case over the current week. His statement... -
First Thing We Do ....
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." —Dick the Butcher, Henry IV, Part 2. -
Yale Conference on “Bridging the Divide”
From March 30-April 1, 2017, the Yale Center for Global Legal Challenges and the Yale Office of International Affairs are sponsoring the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, a two-day program that will focus on ... -
The Limits of Air Strikes when Fighting the Islamic State
When it comes to the Islamic State, who doesn’t want to “bomb the shit out of them,” as our President-elect so eloquently put it? The group is violent, aggressive, and almost cartoonishly evil: torture, ... -
Four Myths about the Kurds, Debunked
Editor’s Note: There is one bright spot in the darkness of the Middle East: the U.S. relationship with various Kurdish groups. In Iraq and Syria in particular, the Kurds seem the bulwark of U.S. efforts ... -
Senator Kaine on the Forever War
Last Wednesday, Senator Tim Kaine devoted his first Senate speech since the election to the AUMF and the war against ISIL. The occasion for the speech was the death Naval CPO Scott Dayton, a Virginian w...
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