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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in a U.S. air strike over the weekend, throwing the Taliban into the second leadership shake-up in less than a year. Robert Chesney questio... -
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Cruel to be Kind: Authoritarian Counterinsurgency and the Winning of Hearts and Minds
Editor's Note: Dictators fight insurgents wrong. Rather than redress grievances and win over the locals, they repress and coopt, tolerating corruption and abuses. David Ucko of National Defense Universit... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jefferson Powell on ‘Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of U.S. Drone War’
Four years ago, Anwar al Awlaki—an American citizen—was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen, marking the first targeted killing of a U.S. citizen by the U.S. government. While the attack occurred... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Military Commission hearings started up again down at Guantanamo this week, and as always, we had them covered. Cody Poplin shared a statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins prio... -
Call for Papers: The "Bobby R. Inman Award" for Student Scholarship on Intelligence
The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the second round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelli... -
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Rethinking Refugees
Last October, before the Islamic State’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, I argued that the security risks from Syrian refugees are, in general, low, but the potential ones are considerable if th... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic, and Clara Spera released their major new reports on "sextortion." Cody Poplin featured Wittes’s online webcast discussing the new sextortion research. -
Putin's Pullout: A Failing Public Relations Campaign
Editor's Note: Russia won in Syria – or so Putin would like us to believe. The Russian intervention seemed to tip the balance of forces in Assad's favor, and Russia announced a pullout with its mission a... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Juliette Kayyem on ‘Security Mom’ and Building a More Resilient Nation
Last week, Juliette Kayyem joined Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of her new book, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home. In the... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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Event Announcement: "Sextortion: Remote Sexual Assault"
Next Wednesday, May 11, Brookings is holding an online event to release a pair of papers on which I and a team of Lawfare folks have spent a great deal of time over the last several months. The subject i... -
A Camera in My Shower? Fine
During the recent panel event at the Hoover Institution on using data to protect privacy, I had an interesting exchange with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law, which I’ve been mulling over ever since. -
Hindsight: Reflections On Fifteen Years of the War on Terror
Video of the April 26 conference at the Fordham Law School Center on National Security on "Hindsight: Reflections On 15 Years of the War on Terror." -
What Does Effective Intelligence Oversight Look Like?
Last Tuesday, I enjoyed a lively discussion on “Reconciling Liberty and Security” at a conference headlined, “Hindsight: Fifteen Years of the War on Terror” at Fordham Law School’s Center for National S... -
Using Data To Secure Networks: Optimizing Individual Privacy While Achieving Strong Security
On April 14, in partnership with the Center For Democracy and Technology, Intel Security, and the Hoover Institution, we held a lunch event entitled, “Using Data To Secure Networks: Optimizing Individual... -
Hoover Book Soiree: Jeff Powell on "Targeting Americans"
The next in our series of Hoover Book Soirees will take place at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office on May 11, when Jack interviews H. Jefferson Powell about his new book, Targeting Americans: Th... -
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