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Out of the Blue and into the Black?
PDF version A review of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan (Simon & Schuster 2016) -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, June 13th at 12 pm: The Stimson Center will hold an event examining China's Policy Towards the Korean Peninsula. For a full agenda of th... -
Five Tips for Policy Relevance
In the latest issue of Security Studies, my Georgetown colleague Matt Kroenig and I wrote a long essay on how academics might write more effectively for policy audiences (and yes, Lawfare gets a nice men... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
After VICE News published a mammoth 11,000 word piece on Saturday afternoon claiming Edward Snowden repeatedly sought to file his surveillance concerns with the NSA before he became a household name for ... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #174: "Suzanne Spaulding on Cyber"
This week, Suzanne Spaulding—Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the Department of Homeland Security—joined me on the podcast in an interview in front of a live... -
NSA's Word Problem
There is an interesting exchange in the new Snowden FOIA release (h/t Marcy Wheeler) that has me concerned as a technologist. In it Snowden provides some technical support from NSA Hawaii to NSA headquar... -
Arabs and Arabs: Refugee Integration and Existing Franco-Arab Communities
PARIS, France—Barbès, La Chapelle, Marseille, are just a few of the places in France whose names have come to evoke images of their large populations of French people of Arab—mainly North African—descent... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Headlines across the spectrum today suggest that besieged in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, ISIS is on the retreat. -
Speaker Ryan Releases GOP National Security Strategy
In an event yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the House Republican's 2016 national security strategy. -
Multinationals Beware: The U.N. Threat to Global Trade and International Economic Law
As the UN dismantles the well-rooted legal architecture of free trade, with the broad support of its members, global industry is growing concerned. Recently, members of the UN Human Rights Council (“UNHR... -
Cyber Deterrence “At Scale”
This week, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse called for the creation of a cybersecurity “militia” to strengthen US defense. He suggested reexamining a “militia model that lets ordinary citizens come to their co... -
Today's Headlines and Commenary
The Washington Post tells us that after two Palestinian attackers gunned down four Israelis last night in a crowded Tel Aviv market, Israel has deployed more troops to the West Bank and frozen 83,000 per...
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