The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies...

Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following ruminations concerning lone wolf terrorist offenders: No one real...

David Remes, an attorney for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman and Esmail, has sent in this overview of the ongoing Guantanamo counsel access dispute. In brief: Remes and others recently objected to ...

In an earlier post, here, I described an article I was working on, with my colleague Sam Issacharoff, on detention, targeted killings, and the fundamental transformation we see taking place in the practi...

For readers following closely the issue of possible military strikes (Israeli or U.S.) against Iran’s nuclear facilities, I recommend reading Jeffrey Lewis’s analysis at foreignpolicy.com of the U.S. int...

Guess what? They're still illegal outside of Afghanistan: Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part o...

For those who have been wondering--even a little bit--about the technology behind the Lawfare Drone Smackdown, Gizmodo UK has this handy review of the Parrot AR 2.0 drone, which is the robotic base off o...

In response to my inquiry about drones that could capture rather than kill ("Robot Rendition?"), Greg McNeal writes in with these very illuminating comments on the technological prospects. It probably g...

This news -- that Iran is considering a lawsuit over Stuxnet -- is too perfect for words.   Lawfare readers will have a field day:  In what court?  Under what theory?   With what damages?   How will they...