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U.N. Report on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
Yesterday, as I noted in today’s news roundup, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released its annual report on civilian casualties (defined as both direct and indirect deaths and injur... -
Mandiant Report on "APT1"
Paul and Ritika have already linked to the Mandiant report yesterday on the Chinese People's Liberation Army cyber espionage group known as Unit 61398. It's a very impressive document. Here is the execu... -
What's the Deal With the New York Times and Really Bad Drone Humor?
As the co-creator of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown and the publisher (though not the baker) of this drone strike cake, I should perhaps check myself before cringing at other people's drone humor. But I can... -
China is Cyber Guilty
Apropos of our discussion last week about "Taming the Cyber Dragon" today's New York Times has an extensive report on how China's army is directly linked to hacking inside the United States. For those w... -
Readings: Autonomous Weapon Systems Links Post Updated
Back on December 11, 2012, I posted a special Readings page of links to articles, reports and other materials on autonomous weapon systems and their regulation. It is updated periodically; I've just add... -
Emptywheel Side-by-Side of Holder Speech and White Paper
Over at the emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has done a handy side-by-side of Attorney General Holder's Northwestern speech and the leaked White Paper. -
Carrie Cordero on FISA Court Lessons for a "Drone Court"
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department national security official, writes in with the following thoughts on the FISA Court and its lessons for ... -
More on Drones versus Enhanced Interrogation
Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat... -
Taming the Cyber Dragon?
While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention. To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions. So when it sl... -
John Brennan's Answers to SSCI Post-Hearing Questions
They are available here. Lots of interesting stuff on a first quick read, but two thing stand out. First, in response to the question “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United... -
The New York Times Proposes Judicial Review of Nearly All Drone Strikes
I'm not sure if this is by accident or on purpose, but the New York Times yesterday proposed advanced judicial review of a huge swath of targeting in warfare against terrorist groups. Consider the first... -
Allan Friedman on Why the Executive Order on Cyber
My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a cybersecurity expert, sent me the following brief note following the State of the Union and the concurrent release of the president's executive order on cybersecu...
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