First up: on Monday the Hedges plaintiffs, with the United States' consent, sought additional time with which to file their response brief.  (From the docket, it seems the plaintiffs actually had request...

Jeh Johnson, the Department of Defense's General Counsel, will resign effective midnight on December 31 of this year.  According to his resignation letter, Johnson plans to take some time off, and then t...

After responding yesterday to Matt and Ken on lethal autonomous robots, Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski now takes aim at my critique of his group's report on robots with autonomous lethal capability.

Walter Russell Mead coined the phrase “Libyan afterparty” to describe the many unintended and unhappy consequences – especially for the rise of Islamist terrorist power centers in Northern Africa – of th...

The ICRC, on its blog Intercross, has responded to a pair of recent articles in Slate on weapons.

Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch has responded to our critique of their recent report on autonomous lethal systems.

As readers know, last Thursday the Senate approved Senator Feinstein’s amendment to the NDAA, regarding the domestic detention of citizens and lawful permanent residents. That wasn’t all.

Belatedly, I want to note the completion -- on October 18/19 -- of the “Copenhagen Process on the Handling of Detainees in International Military Operations” and the release of “The Copenhagen Process Pr...