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"Diplomatic Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Bosnia and Hercegovina," by Philippe Leroux-Martin
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Rational Security, the "Robot Samurai Overlord Edition"
Tamara Cofman Wittes is back from the Middle East, so the Rational Security crew was back together yesterday intact. Between Tamara's trip and the Supreme Court's Zivotofsky decision, it was an unusually... -
Results of an Investigation: Four Children Killed on a Gaza Beach
Israel's Military Advocate General has been releasing periodic updates about investigations and prosecutions related to last summer's Gaza war. The latest update has just been released, and it includes t... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The stories are still coming in from yesterday’s announced deployment of 450 additional US troops to Iraq. The Wall Street Journal describes various criticisms of the measure as misguided or insufficient. -
Important UK Report on Surveillance and Data Collection
Entitled "A Question of Trust," the report was presented to Parliament and the Prime Minister today and was authored by David Anderson QC, the UK's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. -
I, For One, Welcome Our Samurai Robot Overlords
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CISA Agonistes
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 passed out of the Intelligence Committee by a 14-1 vote. With that passage, and the House adopton of two similar bills in April, some of us had begun t... -
Lawfare and the IDF Lawyers
Willy Stern has a very interesting essay at the Weekly Standard about “Dabla,” the Israeli Defense Force’s elite operational lawyers. -
Whatever Happened to Umm Sayyaf?
Critical attention to the Obama Administration’s handling of the ongoing conflict with al Qaeda and associated forces tends to center on debates over drones and targeted killing, not captures. This may b... -
"Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict," by William Boothby
Published by Oxford University Press, 2009 -
The Middle East Ticker
International Criminal Court preparing to send an investigative team to Israel: The Israeli daily Haaretz reports that the ICC’s Prosecutor’s office is preparing to send a team to Israel as parts of its ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Obama administration plans to send up to 450 additional US troops to Iraq to assist in the fight against ISIS--a decision likely influenced by the recent fall of Ramadi. Josh Earnest, the White House...
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