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Editor’s Note: A longstanding counterterrorism tension is how to balance a robust intelligence presence and tough legal measures against hardcore terrorists with the need to gain the support of local com...
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On Monday, the Third Circuit issued its decision in the potentially landmark case Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation et al, on the FTC’s ability to regulate private-sector cybersec...
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Editor's Note: In the latest entry in our ongoing dialogue on the future of Afghanistan, Stephen Watts and Sean Mann respond to Gary Owen's critique of their piece on the future of Afghanistan, arguing t...
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Ben kicked off the week by giving us a virtual tour of “Strategic Jerusalem,” a photo essay chronicling his tour of the flashpoints for conflict that surround the city. The “tour,” he writes, is a “visua...
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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
By Peter W. Singer and August Cole
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015)
Reviewed by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
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Monday, August 17th at 10:30 am: The Brookings Institution will host a panel on The Defense Economy and American Prosperity at the Dupont Circle...
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Editor’s Note: No one wants to give terrorists even a shred of legitimacy through negotiations, but even hardline counterterrorist countries like Israel have at times recognized the need to cut a deal wi...
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Yesterday, Ben announced the Omphalos Middle East Journalism Program that we are launching in cooperation with our friends at Academic Exchange.
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Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, we ran a provocative piece by Stephen Watts and Sean Mann in which they argued that in both its politics and in its development, Afghanistan is doing better than is common...
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The “going dark” debate continued on Lawfare this week. Paul provided us with a guest post from Nicholas Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, who argued that the iPhone—”pe...
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I am happy to report the results of the 2015 “Bobby R. Inman Award” competition for student research and writing on intelligence, sponsored by the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas...
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The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
By Michael Morell
Twelve/The Hachette Group (2015)
Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld
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Last Friday at the stroke of midnight, India and Bangladesh exchanged 50,000 people and more than 160 pockets of land as part of a major land boundary agreement (LBA) approved by the Indian parliament in...
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Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...
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This week’s Lawfare Podcast features interviews from the Aspen Security Forum with—among others—FBI Director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers.
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It has been quite common in the last decade, when difficult legal questions were raised about individual rights and judicial review—the rights, for example, of noncitizen military detainees at Guantanamo...
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I posted a first batch last week. Here are the rest of the videos from this year's Aspen Security Forum.
A Look Into SOCOM
Joseph Votel, Commander, US Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherin...