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Rational Security: The “It Was 29 Pages All Along” Edition
A terrorist in Nice, France, kills more than 80 people celebrating Bastille Day. Turkey’s president hangs onto power following an attempted coup. Congress releases 29 previously classified pages from an ... -
The Difference Between the Article I and Article III Questions in <em>Al Bahlul</em>
As Jack noted earlier this morning, Lawfare's Alex Loomis has a fascinating new paper up on SSRN (for the moment, anyway) about the scope of Congress's Article I power to "define and punish . . . -
The Military at Home
PDF version A review of William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus's Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military (Harvard, 2016). *** -
Can Congress Invent New Offenses Against the Law of Nations?
Lawfare’s Alex Loomis has an excellent paper on SSRN that might interest Lawfare readers: The Power to Define Offences against the Law of Nations. From the abstract: -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
More than 9,000 people have been detained in Turkey as President Erdogan continues his crackdown in the aftermath of the failed coup, jailing generals, military officials, governors and police officers. ... -
Joseph Hassan Farrokh Sentenced for Attempted Material Support to ISIL
Last Friday, a federal district court in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Joseph Hassan Farrokh, a 29-year-old man from Woodbridge, Virginia, to 102 months in prison for attempting to provide m... -
U.S. Response to the South China Sea Arbitration and the Limits of the Diplomatic “Shamefare” Option
In a post last week, I argued that the recent UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitral award against China opens the legal door to more aggressive U.S. freedom of navigation operations (FON... -
Turks, Arabs, and Leadership
When Turkish people of all ages took to the streets on July 15 to face army tanks and take a stand for their democratically elected government, Turkish soldiers--except in a handful of instances—refused ... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released the following remarks yesterday at Guantanamo Bay before the resumption of pre-trial hearings in the case Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood atop a bus in front of his mansion in Istanbul on Saturday night and boasted to his supporters that “we bow only to God.” This populist message underscored Er... -
The South China Sea Arbitration: Implications for the Senkaku Islands
One of the big takeaways from the South China Sea arbitration is that the high-tide features in the Spratly Islands are mere “rocks” under Article 121(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea becaus... -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, July 18th at 4pm: The Institute of World Politics will host a lecture by Dr. Mackubin Thomas Owens on Naval Warfare: The Strategic Influ...
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