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Announcing the Lawfare News Feed
My excitement over Shane Harris's new blog, Dead Drop, provides a catalyst for an action I have been meaning to take for some time: creating an automated page on Lawfare for outside news feeds of particu... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Aaaaand . . . I’m back! Minus a few wisdom teeth---and with a lot more Thai food in my belly. But Raffaela’s partisans need not weep; she will alternate with me covering national security news and analys... -
The Conspiracy Decisions at DoJ and DoD---Some Thoughts
We refrained last week from expressing much opinion on the decisions by both Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins and by the Justice Department in the Al Bahlul case concerning how to handl... -
Self-Defeating Humanitarian Efforts in Africa
Current events in Africa illustrate the unintended and sometimes-self-defeating effects of humanitarian efforts on that continent. First, France’s military action against Islamist insurgents in Mali rai... -
Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World
With some hesitancy at the sense of shameless self-promotion it necessarily entails, I am very pleased to to announce today that my book Cyber Warfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging Americ... -
Update on the Bradley Manning Case
Last week saw several new developments in the Bradley Manning case. Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they intend to offer evidence that Osama bin Laden received some of the classified information ... -
The Air Force General Counsel and Death Star Weapons Review
Following up on Ben's Death Star White House denial, we must note the response of the Air Force General Counsel's Twitter account. And I query over at Opinio Juris whether one day the Administration's pr... -
White House Responds to Death Star Petition
A few weeks ago, I linked to this amusing petition on the White House web site for the United States "to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016." The White House pro... -
Jennifer Daskal's NYT Op-Ed on Guantanamo - Further Comment
Further to Ben's post on Jennifer Daskal's NYT Guantanamo op-ed today, over at Opinio Juris I comment on a different part of the op-ed. Ben refers in part to reasons Jen offers why a transfer of Guantan... -
Detention in Afghanistan: The End Draws Closer
The meeting between Presidents Obama and Karzai today appears to have produced an agreement that will revive the process of shutting down U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan. As reported in the Wal... -
Al-Nashiri: Delay of Game
From the Military Commissions' website, we learn that the upcoming hearing inUnited States v. Al-Nashiri will be postponed: Pursuant to a request by defense, the military judge has rescheduled the motion... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lest you forget, today marks the nationwide release of "Zero Dark Thirty." Surely you won't miss that. Ben already posted about Jen Daskal's New York Times op-ed. Jen argues against closing the Guantan...
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