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Do We Care Less About Air Strikes When Pilots Are in the Cockpit? The Droneless Air War in Libya
Are you paying attention to Operation Odyssey Lightning, the U.S. air campaign underway for a full month now in Libya? Not many people are, which is interesting considering that we are approaching 100 ai... -
The Moldovan Banking Scandal and the Geopolitical Threat to Reform in Eastern Europe
Editor's note: The Navanti Group is a data analytics company that uses a specialized network of local researchers to provide insight into local dynamics in hard-to-reach places around the globe. As the ... -
Developing "Loud" Cyber Weapons
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Kurdish forces have agreed to a temporary pause in fighting in northern Syria, but Turkish officials insist that their military operations in the war-torn country will co... -
Brief Thoughts on Al-Nashiri
A few observations on the future significance of the recent Al-Nashiri ruling. -
Thoughts on Al Nashiri II
Steve Vladeck this morning beat me to the punch on a key takeaway about the Al Nashiri II decision yesterday. But his attitude toward the subject is a bit different from mine. So while I agree with him o... -
DC Circuit in Al-Nashiri: All Clear for Military Commission Trial
The D.C. Circuit decided Tuesday that it would let a military commission take the first whack at a crucial issue in the prosecution of Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the attack on the... -
Al-Nashiri II: Comity, Legitimacy, and the Military Commissions
Unless you're someone who keeps a copy of Hart & Wechsler on your desk, you probably don't care that much about Tuesday's divided ruling by the D.C. Circuit in In re Al-Nashiri (which, for ease of refere... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
ISIS’s spokesman, Abu Mohammed al Adnani, has been killed in Syria, the New York Times reports. -
The Caesar Bill: A Novel Approach to Human Rights Accountability in Syria
In the more than five years since Syrian calls for self-determination first began, the world has witnessed the most egregious humanitarian crisis since World War II unfold. Over 400,000 people have been ... -
0-days, N-Days, iPhones, and Android
Recently, I wrote the follow on the student site for CS 161 (Computer Security) which I'm co-teaching this semester at Berkeley. A zero day is a vulnerability unknown to the rest of the world: there is... -
DC Circuit Rules on Nashiri
This morning, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision on Abd al Rahim al Nashiri's petition for a writ of mandamus to dissolve the military commission convened to try him. The court denied...
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