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Water Wars: Mr. Duterte Goes to Beijing
Details of a Deal Emerge between Manila and Beijing President Xi Jinping welcomes President Rodrigo Duterte to Beijing (Photo: Straits Times) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Coalition forces fighting to retake Mosul from the Islamic State continued to make progress today, reports the Washington Post. Iraq’s elite, U.S.-trained counterterrorism forces engaged ISIS militants i... -
Statement From Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins provided the following statement on pretrial hearings this week in the USS Cole case. -
Challenges for the U.S. Military in Designing and Deploying Self-Driving Vehicles
An observation made in the briefing report War-Algorithm Accountability (featured in a Readings post last week) is that weapons are not the only military systems increasingly defined by algorithms, autom... -
Rational Security: The “Thank God We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” Edition
Iraqi and U.S. forces begin the campaign to reclaim the city of Mosul, ISIS’s major stronghold in Iraq. Retired Gen. James Cartwright pleads guilty to lying to federal leak investigators. And three Kansa... -
National Security Highlights from the Final Presidential Debate
The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at the University of Nevada Las Vegas last night, with Chris Wallace moderating. In the most important moment o... -
DC Circuit Upholds Conspiracy Conviction in al-Bahlul
In an en banc decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Ali Hamza al-Bahlul's conviction by military commission for conspiracy to commit war crimes. The decision is the opposite of the court's... -
Fewer Drugs Doesn't Necessarily Mean Less Violence
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an op-ed by Mario Berlanga, a recently graduated Stanford MBA student from Mexico, which chides Americans of all types—and especially those who “consider the... -
Marshall Islands’ Disarmament Cases Backfire
On October 5, the International Court of Justice dismissed the Marshall Islands’ nuclear nonproliferation litigation for lack of jurisdiction. The judgments subtly critiqued the island nation for its em... -
Still More on Loud Cyber Weapons
In my first post on this subject, I quoted a news story in fedscoop saying that The development of “loud” offensive cyber tools, [that could be definitively traced to the United States and thus] able t... -
Presidential Debate National Security Bingo
Like many of you, I find myself unable to resist watching the debate this evening despite the fact that the last one actually left me felling physically ill. But I'm hoping to lighten the experience a bi... -
Does Obama Really Have a November Surprise Planned for Israel and the Palestinians?
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Markaz. ***
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