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Snowden: What's the Harm?
What harm has Edward Snowden done to his country? When Snowden asserts that the National Security Agency listens to encrypted Russian diplomatic traffic, it takes the Russians about twenty minutes to sh... -
Time To Terminate the Iran-US Claims Tribunal
I have an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "This Other Deal With Iran Is Obsolete" in which I argue that the current discussions between the US and Iran to reach a permanent agreement regard... -
Low-Intensity Conflict in Africa: French and American Uses of Force in Recent Days
Remember Mali? We don't hear much about it these days, but it still suffers from the presence of armed groups of Islamist extremists in the north, and the French military is still there and using force ... -
Air Wisconsin v. Hoeper
The Supreme Court today decided Air Wisconsin v. -
The Cairo Diary: In Alf Maskan After the Bullets
On the anniversary of the January 25 uprisings, television screens across Egypt broadcast dance performances on the stage in Tahrir square, smiling children with Egyptian flags painted on their faces, an... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Let's start with world developments: The risk that President Obama will be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan because of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's continuing refusal to sign off... -
Jim Baker Appointed as FBI General Counsel
FBI Director Jim Comey has appointed Jim Baker as FBI General Counsel. This is an outstanding appointment. The announcement is here. Jim Baker is one of the most experienced and conscientious intellig... -
Congressional Control of Intelligence Programs (sometimes)
In the last ten days, an interesting controversy has bubbled up over congressional control of the drone program. The quarrel, which has been both internal to the Senate and between the Congress and the ... -
Lt. Col. Matthew Atkins on "The Personal Nature of War in High Definition"
I met Matthew Atkins, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, recently at the Hoover Institution, where he is currently a military fellow. Lt. Col. Atkins has worked in targeting and intelligence a fair b... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Frederic Wehrey on "The Roots--and Blowback--of the New Sectarianism"
Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev... -
A Guide to the Coming Onslaught of Presidential Administration
Scott Wilson has a long piece in the Washington Post about how “the White House is reorganizing itself to support a more executive-focused presidency” after concluding that it cannot get much done with C... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #59: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived 200...
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