It’s Day 4 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—the special series of podcast interviews we've been running this week with senior NSA officials. In our penultimate epis...

It's Day 2 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews with senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. In today's episode, we sit...

Welcome to "Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don't Have To"---a special series of podcast interviews of senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. As we described on Saturday, ...

Colombia is a bright spot in the otherwise-bleak world of trying to restore functioning government to the undergoverned spaces of the world. It's a country that a decade ago was mired in narcoterrorism, ...

On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a group of journalists. The sessions were focused on national security legal issues and the work of H...

On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a first-rate group of journalists focused on national security legal issues and the work of Hoover’s ...

Over the last few weeks, Benjamin Wittes and John Bellinger both have written on Lawfare about the government shutdown, Tea Party Republicans, and political dysfunction's implications for national securi...

Bruce Riedel, Director of the Intelligence Project, hosted Matt Apuzzo at the Brookings Institution for a discussion of his new book “Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s ...

Here's something I am very excited about: the Revolutions Podcast. Revolutions, which describes itself as "a weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions," is the latest project of a guy n...

Back in July, we published the second paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series, an essay entitled "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action" by Nathan Myhrvold.

On Thursday, Brookings hosted an event on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria.

Lawfare readers already know Laura Dean, author of the Cairo Diary we have been running the past few months. I met Laura a few years ago, when she was a Senate staffer and a close mutual friend brought ...

Lawfarers will recall Ben's trip, two months back, to Bangkok and the 26th annual International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference.  While attending MILOPS, he interviewed a number of key co...