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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Are U.S. special forces preparing the ground for the liberation of Mosul? That would seem to be the case, if Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim al Jabouri is to be believed. In an interview with Reute... -
Who's Afraid of Aggression Prosecutions?
Earlier this week, former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger highlighted the increasingly vocal U.S. concerns about the International Criminal Court (ICC) acquiring jurisdiction over the crime... -
Invitation to the Hoover Book Soiree: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield"
The fourth in a series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place next January 19, when Ben interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon about her new book, Ashley's War: The Un... -
Rational Security: The "We're Golden" Edition
The Rational Security gang starts the year with our 50th episode. Kim Jong-un says North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb. The Russians may have caused a blackout in Ukraine with a cyber attack. And Presiden... -
Water Wars: A Month of Simmering Tensions to Ring in the New Year
Editor's Note: Welcome back to Water Wars! Following our holiday hiatus, this first edition of the new year will look back at the major events in the Asian Pacific since our last post in late November. N... -
Be Careful What You Wish For: A Response
As many Lawfare readers know, several years ago Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Sandy Clark, and I presented the idea of using vulnerabilities already present in devices as a way to facilitate court-authoriz... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Pentagon has transferred two long-cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees, Khalid al Dhuby and Mahmoud Omar Bin Atef, to the West African nation of Ghana, marking the first time that the United States has t... -
Update: Cybersecurity at the UN
Over the holidays the UN General Assembly formally adopted this year’s resolution on information security. The text, which mandates the creation of a new Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) for 2016-2017... -
Apple, Facebook, and Others Weigh In on UK Investigatory Powers Bill
The UK Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has released written evidence submissions on the legislation. A number of US companies—including Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—and policy gr... -
Secretary Carter Illuminates the South China Sea FONOP
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has published a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, in which he offers the clearest and most detailed explanation the Department of Defense has... -
New National Security Tool Activated At Challenging Time
Late last year, a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court gave the green light to the National Security Agency to start using a new tool to help the government protect against international ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
After detection devices around the world picked up a 5.1 seismic event along North Korea’s northeast coast late Tuesday night, North Korea declared that it had tested its first ever hydrogen bomb.
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