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Strategika, a Hoover Institution online journal edited by Victor Davis Hanson, has published a symposium on whether armed drones are strategically something new, or just an incremental step forward in re...

Here are two quite recent papers, both of obvious interest to Lawfare readers.  The first, entitled "Drones: the Power to Kill," was penned by former Attorney Alberto Gonzales.  Among other things, Gonza...

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...

Courtesy of Aaron Zelin and his indispensable Jihadology blog, here is the latest dust-up in the Al Qaeda family: “On the Relationship of Qā’idat al-Jihād and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām.”

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...

Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair. Thus far, the Periodic...

Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.

Remember Mali?  We don't hear much about it these days, but it still suffers from the presence of armed groups of Islamist extremists in the north, and the French military is still there and using force ...

In the last ten days, an interesting controversy has bubbled up over congressional control of the drone program.  The quarrel, which has been both internal to the Senate and between the Congress and the ...

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...