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The Chess Clock Debates: Is There a Duty to Serve In Trump’s America?
We don’t normally post episodes of the Chess Clock Debates to Lawfare, as the show is not normally oriented towards national security issues. -
Should We Work with the Devil We Know against the Islamic State?
President-elect Donald Trump harshly criticized President Obama’s record on Syria: Obama, he claimed, allowed the Middle East to fall into chaos and let the Islamic State and other terrorist groups flour... -
“Deep Risk” under Trump: Bannon and Flynn Are a National Security Problem
In the weeks immediately following his historic 2008 win, President-elect Obama was careful not to elaborate on the foreign policy positions on which he had campaigned. Commentators noted his likely desi... -
My Lloyd Cutler Rule of Law Lecture: "Law and the Use of Force: Challenges for the Next President"
Last night, I gave the Sixth Annual Lloyd Cutler Lecture on Rule of Law at the Supreme Court, in which I spoke about the domestic and international law applicable to the use of military force by the next... -
Protecting the Republic: Securing Communications is More Important than Ever
For some time I have argued that encryption is a security versus security issue. Given our reliance on cyber, that is, our increasing intertwining of the physical world with network controls, I continue ... -
New Declaration on UAV Exports Unlikely to Reduce Drone Proliferation
Editor's Note: The use of drones is at the center of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policy – and, perhaps more importantly, at the center of many Lawfare discussions. One frequent concern is... -
The Trump Presidency and America’s Challenge
Now that the United States has put its historic elections behind it, and as we go about examining the poll results, it’s clear that we cannot keep reducing the factors involved in facilitating the electi... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Bill Banks on ‘Soldiers on the Homefront’
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Bill Banks, Professor of Law at Syracuse University and the Founding Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism,... -
Manhattan DA's Office Releases Updated Report on Encryption
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has released a new version of its white paper on "Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety." The report updates the Office's November 2015 white paper on encryptio... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault flagged the risks of the normalization and use of torture in the next administration. Bobby Chesney listed the executive orders that Trump is most likely to repeal when he come... -
President-Elect Trump Begins to Assemble His National Security Team
After a jerky start, the Trump transition appears to be well underway. As of this morning the President-elect has selected three key members of his national security team: Senator Jeff Sessions for Attor...
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