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Does the Armed-Conflict Model Matter in Practice Anymore?
This post draws on material from my current book project, the concluding chapter of which considers the legal architecture of counterterrorism in a "postwar" setting...and advances the argument that we a... -
Ben Emmerson on President Obama's Speech
Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism---who Ben and I interviewed for a special edition of the Lawfare Podcast---issued the following statement on President Obama's spe... -
You Are an Operational Commander of AQAP Reading the White House Fact Sheet
Along with President Obama's speech yesterday on counterterrorism policy, the White House released a document titled Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterror... -
Reactions to the President’s Speech
My reactions to the President’s speech can be found in this essay at the CFR page. The headline writers gave it the title of Obama Passes the Buck: The President's Empty Rhetoric on Counterterrorism. T... -
The President's Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction--Part 4 (Hedging on the Drone Court)
There are a number of areas in the president's speech yesterday in which Obama publicly aligns himself with critics of his administration, while promising in hard terms very little. As I described yester... -
The President’s Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction—Part 3 (Did the President Narrow the Targeting Criteria for Drone Strikes?)
Perhaps the most puzzling and opaque aspect of President Obama's speech today involves the question of whether he did, or didn't, narrow the criteria for targeting in drone strikes. -
The President’s Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction—Part 1 (Are We at War?)
One week ago, a senior Pentagon official went before the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with the Pentagon's top lawyers, and declared that the armed conflict with Al Qaeda and its associated forc... -
White House Fact Sheet on Use of Force Away from Hot Battlefields
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary May 23, 2013 Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Act... -
The Obama Speech: The Same Standards for Targeted Killings Apply to Non-Citizens as to Citizens
There are many important strands to President Obama's national-security speech, but I want to focus on just one particularly noteworthy element. In clear terms, President Obama announced today that the s... -
Text of the President's Speech This Afternoon
The President's remarks follow below. The Future of our Fight against Terrorism Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery National Defense University May 23, 2013 -
Obama Speaks on U.S. Counterterrorism Policies
Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below: -
Misconceptions Versus Essential Issues Concerning Drones
I recently posted an essay, with co-author Sam Issacharoff, on what we conceive to be the key legal, institutional, and process issues concerning the use of drones for targeted killings -- and even more ...
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