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Today's Headlines and Commentary
This morning, a suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others in Istanbul’s historic district in an attack the Turkish government has attributed to ISIS. The 10 people murdered in the at... -
New Harvard Law Review Feature on Intelligence Oversight
Harvard Law Review has published a new issue, now available online, which includes a feature article and several responses concerning the role of the President and National Security Council in overseeing... -
The Week That Will Be
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Sana’a: Iran’s Fourth Arab Capital?
Editor's Note: The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has long been a driver of instability and extremism in the Middle East, and this tension grew even worse when the Saudis executed Nimr al-Nimr, a Shiite cleric an... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Welcome to the first Week That Was of 2016. Here’s a rundown of the happenings that defined the start of the new year. In Sunday’s Foreign Policy Essay, Renanah Miles and Brian Blankenship examined Chin... -
Invitation to the Hoover Book Soiree: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield"
The fourth in a series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place next January 19, when Ben interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon about her new book, Ashley's War: The Un... -
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Djibouti’s First, But Will it Last?
Editor's Note: The United States has long depended on a worldwide network of military bases to project power, reassure allies, contain enemies, and fight terrorism. Indeed, as the Islamic State has metas... -
Book Review: Cully Stimson Takes on Power Wars
“Governing had turned out to be more complicated than criticizing from the private sector or campaigning.” –a senior Obama administration official. -
The Six Faces of the Islamic State
In the rhetoric of American leaders, the Islamic State is a terrorist group. The terrorism label, while accurate, is also misleading, obscuring more than it enlightens. One of the top scholars of terrori... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Aaron Zelin brought us the latest edition of the Jihadology Podcast, which features Aymenn al-Tamini in a discussion of the Islamic State’s finances and economic situation. Specifically, the two shed lig... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In a rare appearance at the Pentagon today, President Barack Obama declared that U.S. coalition forces are making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. Amid rising skepticism surrounding the A... -
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The Perils of “French Islam:” France’s Misguided Response to the Paris Attacks
Editor’s Note: Terrorism's biggest impact is rarely in the violence of the attack itself. Rather, it is the government’s response -- for better or for worse -- that often determines whether a terrorist a... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Edward Lucas on ‘Cyberphobias’
We welcome Edward Lucas, a senior editor at the Economist and author of the new book, Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet, to the show this week. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Reflecting on President Obama's Sunday night address from the Oval Office, Bobby highlighted the President’s most interesting remarks on terrorism and the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State. -
"Power Wars" in 100 Tweets
Like many Lawfare readers, I confess to being a little obsessed with Charlie Savage's new book, Power Wars. It is a remarkable account of how national security law is forged, step by step, through the ... -
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Why Israel Outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement
Editor’s Note: An increasingly important segment of Israel's Arab citizenry is tied to the Islamic Movement, a branch of which Israel banned in November. The decision was controversial: not only did it e...
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