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The Routinization of Terror: Why Mass Shootings Don’t Make for Effective Terrorism in America
Editor’s Note: Counterterrorism officials often express considerable concern about lone wolf terrorists -- individuals who act without direct ties to an existing group -- because they are difficult to de... -
Paying Down the Cybersecurity Debt - Event at Intel on December 1
Join us at Intel on Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 from 5:00-6:30 pm for a discussion on the investments and policy framework necessary to close the existing gap in cybersecurity. The evening will begin wit... -
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We Were Wrong About ISIS
Editor’s Note: For over a decade, the Islamic State and its predecessors focused almost exclusively on Iraq, Syria, and their neighbors. The downing of the Russian airplane over the Sinai Peninsula and e... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Charlie Savage on ‘Power Wars’
At the last Hoover Book Soiree—and if you have not attended one yet, you really should—Charlie Savage, New York Times national security reporter and author of the newly released book Power Wars: Inside O... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week, Lawfare introduced Susan Hennessey as its new managing editor. Please join us in welcoming her (back) to the Lawfare team, and follow her on Twitter! -
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Norms of Cyber War in Peacetime
Editor’s Note: Cyber attacks and the appropriate response are new territories in national security. On the one hand, most attacks do little damage, and their perpetrators are often unclear. On the other ... -
La France-des-Cavernes
The only photograph that hangs in my attic office is that of René Char, the poet and World War II Resistance fighter. Trying to find an appropriate expression of solidarity with the French people in the ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Bobby alerted us last night to the horrifying series of attacks that occurred across Paris on Friday evening. A series of explosions and armed attacks left at least 128 dead across the city and injured h... -
Law Wars: My Review of Savage's "Power Wars"
"Law Wars" is the name that the editors of the New Rambler gave to my review of Charlie Savage's great new book, Power Wars. My review begins: -
The "Where" Problem of Territory, Jurisdiction, and Data in Cyberspace
Jennifer C. Daskal (Washington College of Law, American University) has a forthcoming paper in Yale Law Journal on the vexing question of territoriality and data (current draft is available on SSRN.com),... -
The Vulnerable Cables Undergirding the Internet
Amid concerns of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, there is a related security topic that receives far less attention: vulnerabilities of the physical cables that enable telecommunications traffic and the... -
The Unintended Consequences of Media Crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa
Editor’s Note: The hopes for democracy in the Middle East that flourished after the Arab Spring are now gone. Hope for positive change, however, rests on many of democracy's building blocks, such as the ... -
My Review of Charlie Savage's Book, Power Wars
Earlier this week, Time magazine published reviews of Charlie Savage's new book, Power Wars, by me and former Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer. As I read it, "the story strongly implies that mainstre... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
After last week’s U.S. Naval patrol near China’s claimed Subi Reef in the South China Sea, several Lawfare authors considered the implications of the operation. Asking how far the United States went with... -
Similar Ethical Dilemmas for Autonomous Weapon Systems and Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
In writing about autonomous weapon systems (AWS) and the law of armed conflict, we have several times observed the similarities between programming AWS and programming other kinds of autonomous technolog... -
Invitation to the Hoover Book Soiree: Charlie Savage on "Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency"
The second in a series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place next Tuesday, November 10, when Jack interviews Charlie Savage about his new book, Power Wars: Ins... -
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Stalemate, Not Statehood, for Iraqi Kurdistan
Editor’s Note: The Kurds are the largest nation in the Middle East without a state of their own and their quest for more rights and at times independence has led to civil wars, unrest, and near-genocidal...
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