John C.

First up: on Monday the Hedges plaintiffs, with the United States' consent, sought additional time with which to file their response brief.  (From the docket, it seems the plaintiffs actually had request...

After responding yesterday to Matt and Ken on lethal autonomous robots, Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski now takes aim at my critique of his group's report on robots with autonomous lethal capability.

The ICRC, on its blog Intercross, has responded to a pair of recent articles in Slate on weapons.

Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch has responded to our critique of their recent report on autonomous lethal systems.  We will post some more detailed thoughts on this later, but in the meantime we'd l...

As readers know, last Thursday the Senate approved Senator Feinstein’s amendment to the NDAA, regarding the domestic detention of citizens and lawful permanent residents. That wasn’t all.

Those of you who followed the Lawfare Drone Smackdown will be interested in this post on DIY Drones: We had a a great time at the Drone Games at the Groupon offices in SF today. (They used to be called t...

Wells is exactly right--and Senators Levin and Graham are exactly wrong--about the implications of last night's Senate vote approving Senator Feinstein's amendment to the FY2013 National Defense Authoriz...

Readers of Lawfare must sometimes wonder what all the cyber fuss is about.  How, after all, does cyber conflict occur.  Current events in Syria give a good sense of how conflict is happening.  Here is an...

[Updated 3:08 p.m] Last night, the Senate approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's amendment (No.

Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total num...

Here's the Obama Administration's statement of policy regarding the Senate's version of the NDAA for FY2013.   The document begins as follows: The Administration appreciates the Senate Armed Services Com...