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Fourth Circuit Reinstates Abu Ghraib Lawsuit
In a decision handed down today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court decision dimissing a tort suit against CACI Premier Technology Inc., a contractor at the Abu Ghr... -
State-Sponsored Doxing and Manipulation of the U.S. Election: How Should the U.S. Government Respond?
As Thomas Rid explains in this terrific piece in Esquire, the Russian government has developed a remarkable capacity for blending the fruits of espionage with information operations designed to manipulat... -
The Meaning of South Africa's ICC Exit
News broke last night that the South African government had decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The announcement sent shock waves through the international law and human righ... -
A Summary of the Al Bahlul Decision
Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul is a Yemeni citizen, currently held in Guantanamo Bay, who was convicted in a military commission under the 2006 Military Commissions Act for “inchoate conspiracy” to co... -
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...
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