The Second Annual Triple Entente Beer Summit again filled the Washington Firehouse loft with an audience at least as knowledgeable as the panel, which consisted of Ben Wittes, Shane Harris, Stewart Baker...

Headlines around the world over the last two weeks have warned of the impending "humanitarian catastrophe" in places like Aleppo should Assad regime forces continue their march unimpeded.

If you missed the Triple Entente Beer Summit yesterday evening, more's the pity for you. Three of the podcasts hosted on Lawfare—Rational Security, The Lawfare Podcast, and the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast—g...

Last week as part of the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center's conference on "The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law," Daniel Placek, formerly one of the key figures behind the undergroun...

We devote episode 100 to “section 702” intelligence – the highly productive counterterrorism program that collects data on foreigners from data stored on US servers.

This week as Iowa voters took to the caucuses, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on defense strategy for the next president. The panel, moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O’Hanlon, included R...

Tamara talks about the administration's revamping of its efforts to staunch ISIS recruitment. Shane discusses how the NSA is making the line between cyber attacks and defense even blurrier. And I have a ...

Barak Mendelsohn comes on the show to discuss his new book, The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences. Some of the topics covered include:

Our guest is Amit Ashkenazi, whom I interviewed while in Israel. Amit is Legal Advisor of The Israel National Cyber Bureau and a former general counsel to Israel’s data protection agency.

Tamara considers the Arab Spring five years later. What have we learned about the future of peace and stability in the region? Shane looks into who that mysterious fourth American hostage freed by Iran w...

If there really is another crypto war in Washington, then this week’s podcast features several war correspondents and at least one victim of PTSD. 

The fourth Hoover Book Soiree, held this week in Hoover's beautiful Washington, D.C. offices, featured Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on her newest book, Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers ...

Aaron Stein comes on the show to talk about IS networks in Turkey. Some of the topics covered include:

Back for a rematch, John Lynch and I return to the “hackback” debate in episode 97, with Jim Lewis of CSIS providing color commentary.

Four Americans are freed in a prisoner swap with Iran. Twitter is facing a lawsuit over jihadist messages posted on the site. And Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is cracking down on just about everybody...

Last week, we hated on bitcoin. This week we give it some love.

Obama delivers his final State of the Union address; we discuss all of the fun parts related to security and ignore the rest. Iran delivers ten sailors back into U.S. custody after briefly detaining them...

How do you graduate as a conservative with two Harvard degrees? We learn this and much more from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), our guest for episode 96 . We dive deep with the Senator on the 215 metadata progr...