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Children of the Caliphate: Victims or Threat?
Editor’s Note: Of the many horrible things the Islamic State has done, one of the worst is its indoctrination of children and use of them in its gruesome deeds. The children are both victims and perpetra... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed the partial injunctions against the revised travel ban. Matthew Kahn posted the orders. Peter Margulies detailed the context for the orders and argued that the decisio... -
The Habeas Privilege and Enemy Combatants
PDF version A review of Amanda Tyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (Oxford, 2017). *** -
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How to Respond When the International Criminal Court Goes after America
Editor’s Note: The International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to investigate U.S. actions in Afghanistan and controversial interrogation practices—a decision the United States has long quietly opposed. ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about meetings with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak that took place during the presidential transition... -
Congress and the President in Wartime
PDF version A review of David Barron's Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon & Schuster, 2016). *** -
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, November 28 at 11:00 am: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will address the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on The U.S.... -
Foreign Fighter ‘Hot Potato’
Editor’s Note: As the Caliphate collapses, many of its foreign volunteers are fleeing Iraq and Syria. A lot of ink has been spilled (some by me, in fact) on the problem of foreign fighters returning home... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Richard Betts and Matthew Waxman outlined a proposal to constrain and safeguard the president’s authority to launch a first-use nuclear attack. Amanda Sloat explained why the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s c... -
Rational Security: The "Mother May I Launch a Missile" Edition
Should the president have the sole authority to launch nuclear missiles? President Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. And the “grownups” in charge of national security are exhaust... -
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The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Daniel Byman, Sarah Tate Chambers, Zann Isacson and Chris Meserole previewed their upcoming series on regulating terrorist content on the Internet. Alan Rozenshtein analyzed how a bill making tech compa... -
The Art of Dealing with the Taliban
Editor’s Note: As the Trump administration weighs its options in Afghanistan, one of the biggest questions is whether to continue talks with the Taliban via its office in Doha—an office set up with stron... -
Will Emerging Weapons Change the Law of War?
PDF version A review of Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo's Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules of War (Encounter Books, 2017). *** -
Philip B. Heymann: The Art of the Cover Up: Watergate
Lawfare is pleased to announce the publication of a new paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: The Art of the Cover Up: Watergate, by Philip B. Heymann, law professor at Harvard Law School and forme... -
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Monday, November 13 at 10:00 am: The Brookings Institution will host a panel of experts to explore the question: Is There Really a Military Read... -
Avengers in Wrath: Moral Agency and Trauma Prevention for Remote Warriors
Editor’s Note: Drone warfare is often caricatured as remote-control fighting, more akin to playing a video game than real warfare. In an unusual Foreign Policy Essay, Dave Blair and Karen House take on ...
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