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The United States carried out airstrikes in Somalia over the weekend, successfully killing more than 150 al Shabaab militants. The Guardian writes that the the strike targeted al Shabaab’s “Raso” trainin... -
Airstrikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities: Attacks in Somalia and Questions About the Current Shape of the Policy
Just this morning, I was thinking that things have been rather quiet with respect to media coverage of U.S. operations against AQ and AQ affiliates in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Well... -
Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World
That is the title of a new book edited by Curtis Bradley. The book’s description: -
The World’s Not Waiting for California: France Moves to Enforce Decryption
Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on... -
A Trans-Atlantic Town Hall Dialogue with Germans on Data Privacy
Last month, I was asked to participate in a genuinely unusual radio experiment: a trans-Atlantic town hall meeting hosted by PRI's America Abroad simultaenously in Austin Texas and Berlin. The subject wa... -
The Week That Will Be
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Why Strategic Planning Matters to National Security
Editor's Note: Most national security bureaucracies regularly go through time-consuming reviews and strategic planning exercises. Are these efforts valuable? Jordan Tama of American University argues tha... -
Welcome Home, @StationCDRKelly
By most accounts, this was not a good week for America. On Thursday evening, our political process hit an all-time low. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Apple v. FBI at the Wilson Center
This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Wilson Center takes on the Apple v. FBI controversy in a panel entitled “Will They or Won’t They? Understanding the Encryption Debate.” -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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Why Does Apple Think Telegram is "Pernicious"?
Apple's general counsel sounds suspiciously like James Comey when he talks about a small messaging app that competes with his own product. -
U.S. Military Detention in Iraq: Just How Many ISIS Detainees So Far?
Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...
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