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Editor's Note: The U.S. struggle against the Islamic State is hamstrung by too many enemies and too few allies. Not only is the United States fighting the Islamic State, but it also opposes the Syrian re...
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Walter Pincus, the Washington Post’s recently-retired national security reporter, sat down with Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree to discuss Walter's recent essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the...
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Benjamin Wittes broke down the newly released “Drone Playbook” and why this is another sign that we need a morally serious president.
Robert Loeb notified us of a lawsuit that grieving parents of two fa...
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Monday, August 8th at 5:30pm: The Young Professionals in International Affairs and the Osgood Center for International Studies will host a Disc...
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Nicholas Weaver offered political campaigns a few suggestions for how they can enhance their resilience to a cyberattack.
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If you've noticed any slowness in Lawfare's performance this morning, the reason is another denial of service attacks.
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Monday, August 1st at 12:45pm: Edward Schumacher-Matos, director of the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University, will speak on The Future of...
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Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des...
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This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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American intelligence agencies have reached a consensus of “high confidence” that Russia was in fact behind the hacking of 20,000 DNC emails, according to The New York Times. The hack could have been par...
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In an unusual campaign season punctuated by scandals and high unfavorability numbers for both leading candidates, the latest turn might just be the most shocking.
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Monday, July 25th at 2pm: The Turkish Heritage Foundation will hold a teleconference on Democracy Under Attack in Turkey. Michael Reynolds, Josh...
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Editor's Note: The Middle East and Iraq and Syria in particular have long enjoyed religious diversity, with a range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups, including some of the world’s oldest Christian communi...
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Steve Budiansky is the author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. He joined Ben at the Hoover Book Soiree recently for a live conversation about...
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Cody Poplin posted the public remarks Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released before the pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay resumed. David Hopen continued Lawfare’s...
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania, orchestrated last week’s failed coup. Erdogan has promised to request Gul...
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A review of William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus's Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military (Harvard, 2016).
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More than 9,000 people have been detained in Turkey as President Erdogan continues his crackdown in the aftermath of the failed coup, jailing generals, military officials, governors and police officers. ...
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The next in our series of soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Wednesday, when Ben interviews Walter Pincus about his new essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and the Press ...