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Precision Lethality and Civilian Harm Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Warfighting

Foreign Policy Essay

Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil

Presidents and War Powers

Matthew Waxman

Nov 15, 2018

PDF Version. A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018). ***
The U.S. Drone War in Pakistan Revisited

Asfandyar Mir

Nov 11, 2018

Editor’s Note: The armed drone has become the emblem of U.S. counterterrorism, but critics charge that it leads to high numbers of civilian casualties and a popular backlash in places like Pakistan. Asfa...
The Death of Cyber Utopia

Paul Rosenzweig

Nov 6, 2018

PDF Version A review of P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media” (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2018). ***