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Why Authorizing Force Against Iran Now is a Bad Idea
Last week, Michael Hayden, once the Director of the CIA and earlier, of the NSA, spoke to CNN about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In a timid endorsement of the accord, he told the network that ... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkey and the United States have reached an agreement to conduct a joint “comprehensive” air campaign against ISIS, or so one side says. -
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What does International Law Have to Say?
Apart from Iraq, no member State of the United Nations has done anything quite like it. First, in 2008 against Georgia, then on an ever widening stage since February 2014 against Ukraine, the Russian Fed... -
CA3 Endorses FTC Authority to Sue Companies for Security Breaches
Such is the gist of a three-judge panel's quite important opinion, affirming the denial of a motion to dismiss in Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation et al. Query how much this ... -
The Parchin Precedent
This past week, George Jahn of the AP published an exclusive, and damning, look at the Iran-IAEA agreement about inspections at Parchin. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Amid the usual surge of grim headlines, we begin our news roundup this Monday with an astonishing story of heroism in France. On Friday evening, one British man and three American citizens successfully s... -
The National Security Dimension of Birthright Citizenship
The hottest flash point at the moment in this summer’s immigration debate is birthright citizenship. -
Evaluating China's Jurisdictional Argument in the South China Sea Case
For those following the Philippines-China South China Sea arbitration, Lawfare alum Sean Mirski has an article over at The Diplomat (“Should the Philippines’ South China Sea Case Against China Proceed?”)... -
The Week that Will Be
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In Afghanistan, the Glass is Still Better Seen as Half Full: A Response to Gary Owen
Editor's Note: In the latest entry in our ongoing dialogue on the future of Afghanistan, Stephen Watts and Sean Mann respond to Gary Owen's critique of their piece on the future of Afghanistan, arguing t... -
The Lawfare Podcast: The American Defense Economy and the Future of American Prosperity
As observers of the defense industry will know, recent developments, such as sequestration and contractor consolidation, have squeezed the American defense industry, resulting in the scraping of long-ter... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Ben kicked off the week by giving us a virtual tour of “Strategic Jerusalem,” a photo essay chronicling his tour of the flashpoints for conflict that surround the city. The “tour,” he writes, is a “visua...
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