The House Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing testimony this morning on the Administration's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure...

Form should follow function. As we noted late last year, in the context of infrastructure protection this means that the organzation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of DHS sho...

I was very skeptical about last September’s US-China “agreement” in which China pledged that it would not “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secre...

If you are planning to travel to Europe this summer .... your trip may be harder than you thought. You have the US Congress to thank.

Editor's Note: Sanctions on China are again in the air as policymakers look on Beijing's provocative regional policies with dismay. Although many experts argue that sanctions would achieve little and mig...

In December, Oona Hathaway and I wrote an op-ed and series of posts on the broken pre-publication review process.

A quick update on a story we've been tracking this week, involving the second publicly-known instance of U.S.-administered military detention of an ISIS member. As noted here, a raid conducted by the Ex...

It appears that Iraqi officials have leaked the identity of the ISIS leader recently captured in a raid conducted in Iraq by the Expeditionary Targeting Force (that's the label the Pentagon has used in d...

These days, when the United States plays the lead role in using lethal force or detaining and interrogating prisoners, the force typically involves only airpower and detention-and-interrogation typically...

Yesterday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its bi-annual report on the "Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." According to the report, the number ...

Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...

On March 2, 2016, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed Resolution 2270, which expands the scope of existing sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Th...