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Mullah Mansour as a "Continuous" Threat: Was the AUMF Strictly Necessary?
The DOD airstrike that may have killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansour is interesting, from a legal perspective, at many levels. -
Strategic Planning for a More Secure Network
As we move toward a presidential election, the question arises: what should the next President (whoever he or she may be) do about cybersecurity? It is a sufficiently salient question that President Ob... -
The Week That Will Be
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Cruel to be Kind: Authoritarian Counterinsurgency and the Winning of Hearts and Minds
Editor's Note: Dictators fight insurgents wrong. Rather than redress grievances and win over the locals, they repress and coopt, tolerating corruption and abuses. David Ucko of National Defense Universit... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jefferson Powell on ‘Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of U.S. Drone War’
Four years ago, Anwar al Awlaki—an American citizen—was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen, marking the first targeted killing of a U.S. citizen by the U.S. government. While the attack occurred... -
House Rejects NDAA Amendment to Repeal 2001 AUMF
On Wednesday, the House rejected, by a vote of 138-285, a proposed amendment to the 2017 NDAA offered by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) that would have repealed the 2001 AUMF 90 days after enactment of... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Military Commission hearings started up again down at Guantanamo this week, and as always, we had them covered. Cody Poplin shared a statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins prio... -
Geof Stone on the NSA
"Geof Stone is a prominent civil liberties expert and advocate who is a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union [and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law Sch... -
Oversight of DOD Kill-Capture Missions Outside Theaters of Major Hostilities: What May Change Under the Next NDAA?
Despite the substantial overlap between counterterrorism activities undertaken by the CIA and JSOC, we tend to pay a lot more attention to the details of the congressional oversight framework for the for... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
“The time… has arrived. It’s time to leave Raqqa.” The United States military is warning residents of the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa to leave the city, suggesting that an offensive against Raqqa wa... -
A Cop on the Molenbeek Beat
BRUSSELS, Belgium—Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving perpetrator of the Paris attacks in November, and his brother Ibrahim, one of the suicide bombers that day, were no strangers to law enforcement. Long... -
Hot Commodities: Things Fall Apart
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