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Today's Headlines and Commentary
After a set of emergency talks involving multiple countries, the government of Ukraine has announced a tentative resolution to the bloody civil conflict centered in Kiev. The deal does not include Presid... -
New America Foundation Event on "The Ever-Falling Cost of Surveillance"
Haven't watched this yet, but it looks very interesting: PARTICIPANTS Moderator Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Reporter, Wall Street Journal @jenvalentino Featured Speakers Kevin Bankston Policy Director,... -
A Security Update
Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my post Saturday morning about our security issues. Thanks to all who made contributions. Thanks to the cybersecurity professionals (and amateurs) who have re... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: ISIS’s Rejection of Al Qaeda—The End of an Era?
Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As this past week began, Ben expressed some exasperation with Angela Merkel and State Department officials for whining like a “bunch of babies” in their responses to the release of an undiplomatic phone ... -
Our Recent Cybersecurity Problems---and an Appeal for Reader Help
I am writing both to update readers on the attacks on Lawfare that took place this week and to make a frank fundraising appeal for reader help in addressing them. As readers know, we have been hit since... -
Readings: A Critique of 'Jus Post Bellum' in International Law, by Eric De Brabandere
In the past two decades or so, an enormous amount of academic international law and policy attention has gone to the concept of jus post bellum, or "post conflict justice." There are various ways of ren... -
"The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster," by Edward Lucas
Published by Amazon Kindle Single (2014) Reviewed by Benjamin Wittes Over the past few weeks, several members of congressional intelligence committees have intimated that Edward Snowden might have bee... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Drivers of Terrorist Innovation—Al Qaeda and the Case of 9/11
Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week began, we found ourselves in the middle of one of our own stories as we persevered through a new round of cyberattacks. Nevertheless Lawfare continued apace. Ben brought us the next installm... -
A Conversation at the Berkman Center---And the Comments of Tim Berners-Lee
Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni... -
Readings: "Charting the Legal Geography of NIAC" by Michael Schmitt
I'll be participating this week in a Naval War College workshop on "Legal Implications of Autonomous Weapons," and since my presentation topic at the workshop is "area of operations" with respect to auto... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The (Many) Hurdles to U.S. Stabilization Operations
Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an... -
Readings: "Using Force on Land to Suppress Piracy at Sea," by Steven R. Obert
Although piracy in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates is sharply down in the last year or two, threats remain and an increase in attacks is far from impossible. After all, little has been done to disrup... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
After weeks dominated by talk of surveillance reform, Lawfare is slowly returning to its usual eclectic self. Wells flagged Guantanamo detainee Al Rahabi’s hearing with the Periodic Review Board. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Directors from five intelligence agencies appeared yesterday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Although nothing earth-shattering was revealed at the public hearing, there were some tes... -
A Lawfare Farewell: Raffaela Wakeman
I don't normally write a post noting departures from our masthead. Our student contributors come and go with the turn of the seasons. They write for a while and then take clerkships, go to law firms, or ... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Frederic Wehrey on "The Roots--and Blowback--of the New Sectarianism"
Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
As the week started, Lawfare continued with its coverage of last Friday’s presidential speech on surveillance reform. John wanted a strong condemnation of Edward Snowden, and was disappointed that the Pr... -
Modirzadeh on National Security Law as a Field
Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin...
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