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John Carlin at Brookings
Recently-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for National Security at DOJ, John Carlin, will give an address at Brookings on Thursday afternoon entitled “Tackling Emerging National Security Threats thro... -
Readings: "Ending Perpetual War?" by David A. Simon
David A. Simon, special counsel to the General Counsel, Department of Defense, has posted a new article to SSRN, "Ending Perpetual War? Constitutional War Termination Powers and the Conflict Against Al Q... -
Readings: “A New Strategy for Reducing the Threat of Dangerous Øday Sales to Global Security and the Economy,” by Michele Golabek-Goldman
We have discussed the manifold challenges of zero day vulnerabilities quite a lot on this blog – why they are central to the cybersecurity challenge, how their discovery is vital to both offensive and de... -
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Proactive Measures—Countering the Returnee Threat
Editor’s Note: The conflict in Syria has attracted an unprecedented number of foreign fighters, with Muslims streaming in from the Arab world and Europe to take up arms against the regime of Bashar al-As... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Let's start this week's recap with posts related to targeting. Ashley talked about the role of consent in targeting non-Al Qaeda members in Yemen in the wake of new reports that the DOD might provide mor... -
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Is Yemen’s Government Complicit with Al-Qaeda?
Editor’s Note: Yemen is among the most vexing allies the United States has in the struggle against terrorism. Like Pakistan, the government in Sana’a is both a key partner and part of the problem. On the... -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #74: An Overview of U.S.-China Relations
Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution has co-authored Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century with Jim Steinberg, Dean of Syracuse’s Maxwell School. Th... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week began, Ben noted that the last few weeks have been fairly kind to NSA. Ben hypothesized that the story may finally be blowing over. Well, maybe not quite over. Jack critiqued a new DNI direc... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Let’s begin with Pakistan today. The New York Times takes a closer look at Islamabad’s Red Mosque, where soldiers and Islamist students fought a pitched battle in 2007 and where a new library named for O... -
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Could Energy Sanctions on Russia Work?
Editor’s Note: Sanctions seem to hit the sweet spot for policymakers when considering options for U.S. foreign intervention: unlike military force, sanctions don’t risk American lives and don’t feed the ... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Let's begin with the White House’s recent release of its highly anticipated Big Data report: Ben noted the release of the report, and Paul gave us some of his reactions. -
"The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014," by Carlotta Gall
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The Foreign Policy Essay: Tensions in the Saudi-American Relationship
Editor’s Note: Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in December 2010, commentators have regularly described relations between Washington and Riyadh as strained at best and near collapse at worst. The po... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week, let's start with the courts. Ben flagged the Second Circuit’s decision ordering that the government to release the legal memos that justify the targeted killing of Anwar Al Awlaki. -
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"Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA," by John Rizzo
Published by Scribner (2013) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes
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