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Happy Birthday: Lawfare Turns Five!
I'm not sure what to say on Lawfare's fifth birthday, so I'll keep this very short. Many thanks to everyone who has helped Lawfare grow over the past five years: to those who have written for it, to thos... -
Fourteen Years Ago This Weekend
Fourteen years ago this coming weekend, I was standing on top of the World Trade Center. It had been a long summer at work. The Justice Department office I worked in at the time was operating at a height... -
The Week That Will Be
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Domestic Counterterrorism: Material Support or Bust
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... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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... -
The Week that Will Be
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In Afghanistan, the Glass is Still Better Seen as Half Full: A Response to Gary Owen
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... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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... -
A Techno-Thriller That's Not Just for the Beach in August
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. -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) 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... -
Should the United States Negotiate with Terrorists?
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... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Yesterday, Ben announced the Omphalos Middle East Journalism Program that we are launching in cooperation with our friends at Academic Exchange. -
The Week that Will Be
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Sorry, Folks: Things Are Not Actually Going So Great in Afghanistan
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... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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... -
Announcing the Results of the 2015 Bobby R. Inman Award Competition (for student research and writing on intelligence)
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... -
A Soldier of the Great War
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 -
India and Bangladesh Exchange 50,000 People, End Diplomatic Standoff
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... -
The Limits of Counterterrorism
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... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
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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