Craig Whitlock has a very interesting piece in the Washington Post today, the main thrust of which is to describe the military's efforts to establish aerial surveillance capacity across wide swaths of Af...

Have you heard of the "Switchblade" UAV?  In brief, it is a man-portable UAV that a soldier in the field can launch in mortar-like fashion, obtaining beyond-line-of-sight surveillance (with video and GPS...

Not quite pret-a-porter?  Various media are reporting on the recently released motion by the 9/11 defendants, who desire to

I will testify tomorrow afternoon before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the Law of the Sea Convention.  A copy of my written statement is here.   Former Deputy Secretary of State Jo...

In a surprising development, the Obama Administration today filed an amicus brief in the Kiobel case in partial support of Shell Oil, arguing that the Alien Tort Statute should not be applied to allow a ...

[Update: Ben Weiser's coverage in the Times points out that real benefit of the plea for Ahmed of course was to avoid the firearms charge, which entailed a thirty year minimum.  Ben also confirms that Ju...

David Remes writes in with the following observation: Yesterday, Ben questioned the propriety of Harold Koh's reference to "enemies of the state" at a State Department event marking the thirty-fifth anni...

I have not linked to the reviews of my book Power and Constraint as they have appeared, but by now there are enough reviews – by Gary Schmitt in the Weekly Standard, Christopher Caldwell in the NYT, Roge...

FAA, eat your heart out.  From The Hill, we learn that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has proposed legislation to curb the use of drones for domestic surveillance.  The heart of his "Preserving Freedom from Un...

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