Last Monday, I flagged Chief Judge Lamberth's important new decision in a Guantánamo habeas case--Barre v. Obama--in which, among other things, he excoriated the government for how long it has taken them...

The quotation is apparently too sexy to resist---too sexy even to Google its speaker's name before running with it. A single Google search would, after all, yield this article by Stuart Taylor Jr. in Nat...

From Weekend Edition, a very thoughtful and useful discussion with Greg McNeal on some of themes of his recent guest blogging on Lawfare:

Courtesy of The Onion, America's Finest News Source: Ayman Al-Zawahiri Delivers TEDTalk On Changing Face Of Terrorism ATLANTA—Addressing attendees gathered for this week’s TEDxEvolution Conference, al-Q...

Wells blogged previously about the efforts of various media groups and the ACLU to seek mandamus review before the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), challenging the scope of the protective orde...

We are excited to announce the launch of a project at which we have been hard at work for some time.

The British Royal United Services Institute has issued a report entitled "Hitting the Target? How New Capabilities are Shaping International Intervention." Here's how the organization describes the proje...

This is sure to satisfy your targeted-killing jonesing for the week: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, a website launched by a company called Pitch Interactive, documents---quite stunningly in visual terms, if ...

Ritika linked yesterday to a new Gallup poll on public attitudes towards drone strikes. The results are not surprising, but they are interesting. Americans largely support drone strike against foreign te...