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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. -
Disappearing “Legal Black Holes”
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... -
More Videos from the Aspen Security Forum
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... -
Life and Times of a Guantanamo Detainee
Guantanamo Diary By Mohamedou Ould Slahi (edited by Larry Siems) Published by Hatchette Book Group (2015) Reviewed by Zoe Bedell It's rare that quotes on the back of a book tell you anything genuinel... -
The Week that Will Be
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Understanding the Limits of Sanctions
Editor’s Note: Sanctions are increasingly America’s foreign policy instrument of first resort, promising success without the bloodshed that comes with military force. Iran’s willingness to cut a deal ove... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Iran continued to dominate Lawfare this week in the wake of the nuclear deal. The U.N. Security Council voted in support of the deal on Monday, and Cody provided us with a link to the resolution. -
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren's Misconceived Memoir
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide By Michael Oren RandomHouse (2015) Reviewed by Yishai Schwartz -
Videos from the Aspen Security Forum
If, like me, you were not invited to this year's Aspen Security Forum, you're probably thinking right now, "Gee, I wish someone would post all the videos of the great events I'm not getting to attend." ...
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