From the vanguard of the revolution, reports Forbes, comes this very important effort to prevent our robot overlords from spying on us: The city of Berkeley, Calif., this week took the first steps toward...

Gabor Rona of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Eric Posner's Slate article, to which I linked the other day: Eric Posner's dismissal of "the human rights regime" would come as ...

Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.

The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...

Over at Slate, Eric Posner has a very interesting essay defending the Senate's recent rejection of the disabilities rights treaty—although rejecting the reasons for rejection proffered by the senators wh...

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta delivered a wide-ranging address on December 18, 2012 at the National Press Club in Washington DC on the United States' overall national security strategy. The speech...

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On Friday, a British court rejected a closely watched civil suit by the son of man killed in a 2011 drone strike in Pakistan that requests a judicial declaration that British intelligence officials may b...

At this season every year, I think of the story of the Christmas truce of 1914 in the trenches of the Western Front.  With warm wishes to all of of Lawfare's readers and especial thanks to those of our r...

So what exactly is in the NDAA conference report that is prompting the agitation for a presidential veto? Here is a quick and dirty summary of "Subtitle D---Counterterrorism"---along with an explanation ...